Mosquitoes may also be a vector for Rickettsia felis

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 07:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Aix Marseille Université in France has found that mosquitoes might be not only carrying the bacteria Rickettsia felis, but might be transmitting it to humans in Africa as well, causing fevers and other symptoms. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team describes lab experiments they conducted with samples of the bacteria and mosquitoes and what they found by doing so.

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