In recent years, infectious diseases brought by mosquitoes, wantonly spread malaria, has seriously affected public health.Slight health networkWas informed that U.S. scientists before the invention of genetically engineered bacteria, or likely to become the organization of mosquito-borne malaria.

 

Pantoea in the mosquito gut bacteria, U.S. researchers genetically modified to make it become a “nemesis” of the mosquito the malaria parasite. The results provide a new way to Roll Back Malaria.
 

Johns Hopkins University researchers genetically modified the Pantoea secrete a harmless mosquito and human protein toxic to the malaria parasite. Mosquitoes that carry the genetically modified bacteria, the body of P. falciparum and P. berghei, the largest number when decreased by 98%. Institute with the mosquito population, the proportion of malaria-bearing mosquitoes has dropped significantly.
 

The study report has been published in the new one U.S. “National Academy of Sciences. Jacobs, who led the study – Lorena pointed out, the scientific community in the past has been genetically modified to resist the spread of malaria by mosquitoes, but its in vivo bacterial transformation of an easier way. This study provides basic data for the use of genetically engineered bacteria to fight malaria.
 

Malaria is caused by the malaria parasite infectious diseases, spread by mosquito bites. According to the World Health Organization, the worldwide each year about a hundred million people died of malaria.
 

Slightly healthy Xiaobian for the prevention of malaria, in addition to prevent mosquito bites, by injecting drugs or vaccines.