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Table 1 Examples of microbial interference between microbiota and vector-borne pathogens

From: The mosquito holobiont: fresh insight into mosquito-microbiota interactions

Pathogen

Mosquito

Microorganism

Interference

References

Arboviruses

Dengue virus

Aedes aegypti

Serratia odorifera

Enhances susceptibility to the virus

[115]

Chromobacterium

Increases infection resistance

Antiviral activity

Immune elicitor

[99]

Enterobacteriaceae, Esp_ivi isolate, alternatively Salmonella, Escherichia or Shigella

Decreases antibacterial activity

Reduces virus dissemination titer

[113]

Wolbachia

Reduces susceptibility to the virus

[153]

West Nile virus

Culex pipiens

Colorado strain

Culex Flavivirus (CxFV)

Reduces virus dissemination

[62]

Culex quinquefasciatus Honduras strain

Culex Flavivirus (CxFV)

Enhances virus dissemination

[132]

 

Culex quinquefasciatus

Nhumirim virus (NHUV)

Reduces virus infection

[135]

Chikungunya virus

Aedes aegypti

Serratia odorifera

Enhances susceptibility to the virus

[115]

Eilat virus

Reduces virus replication and dissemination

[64]

La Crosse virus

Aedes albopictus

Enterobacter ludwigii

Antiviral activity

[116]

Pseudomonas rhodesiae

Antiviral activity

[116]

Vagococcus salmoninarium

Antiviral activity

[116]

Parasites

Plasmodium yoelii

Anopheles dirus

Bacterial microbiota

Protects against infection by regulating tep1 expression

[109]

Plasmodium falciparum

Anopheles gambiae

Chromobacterium

Increases infection resistance by forming a protective biofilm against parasite

[99]

Enterobacter

Inhibits parasite development by stimulating oxydative stress

[100, 101]

Escherichia coli

Reduces infection prevalence and intensity

Reduces parasite development

[98]

Pseudomonas stutzeri

Reduces infection prevalence and intensity

[98]

Serratia

Protects against infection

[103]

Serratia marcescens

Reduces infection prevalence and intensity

Actives IMD/REL2 immune pathway

[98, 106]

Penicillium chrysogenum

Enhances susceptibility to the parasite

[130]

Plasmodium berghei

Anopheles stephensi

Asaia bogorensis

Inhibits parasite development by secreting a siderophore receptor protein and a YVTN beta-propeller repeat protein

[140]

Wickerhamomyces anomalus

Anti-Plasmodium activity

[129]