Abstract: Malaria control is getting tougher each day due to development of resistance to anti-malaria drugs in the parasite and resistance to insecticides in malaria vectors. Alternate strategies are thus required to break the complex malaria parasite interaction. Malaria vectors like other living beings carries diverse flora in their gut, which may inhibit the malaria parasite development inside the mosquito. We earlier identified a natural gut residing lactic acid bacteria Carnobacterium sp., isolated from lab-reared Anopheles stephensi mosquito. An. stephensi is known vector of malaria in Indian subcontinent. Thus, in the present manuscript efforts were made to understand the sporogonic development of Plasmodium vinckei petteri in presence of the bacterium. The bacterium was established in mosquito gut by feeding orally along with sugar meal to a group of gut sanitized mosquito. Groups of naïve, gut sanitized and Carnobacterium sp. fed mosquitoes were used to compare the difference in sporogony of P. v. petteri. This bacterium shows antagonistic effect on development of the malaria parasite.
Keywords: Mosquito, Gut bacteria, Malaria parasite, Sporogony.
Title: Effect of Carnobacterium Sp. On Plasmodium Sporogony in Anopheles Stephensi Mosquito
Author: Devender Dhayal, Anil Sharma, T. Adak, Ranjana Jaiwal
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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