Eradication of Malaria by the Mutualistic Interaction Between Wickerhamomyces anomalus and Anopheles sp.

The fatality of malaria is quite prominent worldwide, which is majorly affecting developing nations having subtropical to tropical climate. The disease burden is quite hefty and its eradication is of utmost importance for the economic development of nations. Many chemical control methods have been used in the past decades, but these methods have been turned obsolete due to the development of resistance of the parasite Plasmodium and the vector Anopheles sp. A new potent method has been developed which focuses on the elimination of the parasite, using the mutualistic interactions between the naturally present microbiota in the mosquito midgut and the mosquito itself; which is termed as symbiotic control. Here we focus on the yeast Wickerhamomyces anomalus and elucidate its mutualistic interactions with Anopheles sp. which can help eradicate the fatal malarial infection.