Juan Campos de Oliveira, Ricardo de Melo Katak, Veranilce Alves Muniz, Marta Rodrigues de Oliveira, Elerson Matos Rocha, William Ribeiro da Silva, Edson Júnior do Carmo, Rosemary Aparecida Roque, Osvaldo Marinotti, Olle Terenius, Spartaco Astolfi-Filho
Highly anthropophilic and adapted to urban environments, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the main vectors of arboviruses that cause human diseases such as dengue, zika, and chikungunya fever, especially in countries with tropical and subtropical climates. Microorganisms with mosquitocidal and larvicidal activities have been suggested as environmentally safe alternatives to chemical or mechanical mosquito control methods. Here, we analyzed cultivable bacteria isolated from all stages of the mosquito life cycle for their larvicidal activity against Ae...
March 11, 2024: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology