Cultivable Bacterial Diversity in the Gut of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma dimidiata: Identification of Possible Bacterial Candidates for a Paratransgenesis Approach

Since bacterial symbionts play a vital role in the metabolism of hematophagous insect vectors the method known as paratrangenesis, which consists of the use of cultivable insect symbionts to interfere with the transmission of vector-transmitted pathogens has been shown to be effective in certain vec...

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Main Authors: Teresa Lopez-Ordonez, Carlos A. Flores-López, Rene Montejo-Lopez, Andres Cruz-Hernandez, Erin E. Conners
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00174/full