Aedes aegypti is the vector of a wide range of diseases (e.g. yellow fever, dengue, Chikungunya and Zika) which impact on over half the world’s population. Entomopathogenic fungi such as Metarhizium anisopliae and Beauveria bassiana have been found to be highly efficacious in killing mosquito larvae but only now are the underlying mechanisms for pathogenesis being elucidated. Recently it was shown that conidia of M. anisopliae caused stress induced mortality in Ae. aegypti larvae, a different mode of pathogenicity to that normally seen in terrestrial hosts.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/metarhizium-brunneum-blastospore-pathogenesis-aedes-aegypti-larvae-attack-several
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1005715
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/abeer-m-alkhaibari
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/aline-t-carolino
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sare-i-yavasoglu-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-pathogens
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vector-borne-diseases
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/micro-organisms
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/research
