Entrega de dsRNA mediada por bacterias para el control de virus transmitidos por mosquitos

Mine Altinli1, Sean P Leonard2, Alain Kohl3

  • 1Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 74, 20359 Hamburg, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany.

Trends in parasitology
|August 22, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Las bacterias diseñadas pueden proporcionar interferencia de ARN (ARNi) para controlar a los mosquitos, un paso vital para la salud pública. Se necesita más investigación para desarrollar esta estrategia sostenible de control de vectores.

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