Fighting Mosquito-Borne Infections
2,582 views · Published 14 December 2009 · 3:16 · Indexed 15 October 2026
Channel: Cell Press · 2009 · Science & Technology
Mosquitoes serve as vectors for a number of pathogens that cause human illness such as dengue fever and malaria. Watch and listen as Scott O'Neill and his colleagues take you on a brief, personally guided tour of their findings that colonizing mosquitoes with Wolbachia bacteria limit the ability of a variety of pathogens to infect, and thus be transmitted by, the mosquitoes.
