The relation between changes in the intestinal microflora of mosquito larvae under the action of phytobacteriomycin and female susceptibility to the causative agent of malaria

Ganushkina, L.A.

Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 2: 47-50

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326
PMID: 1331732
Document Number: 402232
A relationship was found between Pseudomonas suppression by phytobacteriomycin (PBM) in the mosquito larval gut and the mosquito vectorial capacity. The suppression of Pseudomonas bacteria in larvae caused a decrease in the vectorial capacity of emerged imagines. The results of the in vivo tests were verified in vitro with the culture of bacteria isolated from mosquito larva in liquid medium with pH 8.4 which is equal to intestinal pH of Ae. aegypti larva inside the peritrophic membrane. The laboratory Ae. aegypti fed on sugar with PBM addition (titer 100 U/ml) were 18.9% lees sensitive to malaria parasite. Without additional blood meal, mosquito sensitivity to malaria parasite sharply decreases at day 14, without substantially changing their intestinal microflora.

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