Combining transgenesis with paratransgenesis to fight malaria

Malaria is among the deadliest infectious diseases, and Plasmodium, the causative agent, needs to complete a complex development cycle in its vector mosquito for transmission to occur. Two promising strategies to curb transmission are transgenesis, consisting of genetically engineering mosquitoes to...

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Main Authors: Wei Huang, Joel Vega-Rodriguez, Chritopher Kizito, Sung-Jae Cha, Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-10-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/77584