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MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 101-106Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12149
Keywords
Leishmania; biocontrol; phlebotomine sandflies; yeast community
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- Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research FIRB [RBFR136GFF]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme ERC [FP7_FP7] [281222]
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The yeast Wickerhamomyces anomalus has been studied for its wide biotechnological potential, mainly for applications in the food industry. Different strains of W. anomalus have been isolated from diverse habitats and recently from insects, including mosquitoes of medical importance. This paper reports the isolation and phylogenetic characterization of W. anomalus from laboratory-reared adults and larvae of Phlebotomus perniciosus (Diptera: Psychodidae), a main phlebotomine vector of human and canine leishmaniasis. Of 65 yeast strains isolated from P. perniciosus, 15 strains were identified as W. anomalus; one of these was tested for the killer phenotype and demonstrated inhibitory activity against four yeast sensitive strains, as reported for mosquito-isolated strains. The association between P. perniciosus and W. anomalus deserves further investigation in order to explore the possibility that this yeast may exert inhibitory/killing activity against Leishmania spp.
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