Combattre le paludisme et la dengue en favorisant le développement des bactéries Wolbachia chez le moustique.
Malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes are not naturally plagued by Wolbachia, yet laboratory studies have shown that temporary infection made the insects immune to the malaria parasite.
The challenge was to turn a temporary infection into one that would be passed on. The research team found a strain of Wolbachia that could persist in one species of mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, for the entire length of the study - 34 generations.
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22462487
(Bactérie fascinante au demeurant : ▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolbachia)