Skin microbiome alters attractiveness to Anopheles mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Some people produce specific body odours that make them more attractive than others to mosquitoes, and consequently are at higher risk of contracting vector-borne diseases. The skin microbiome can break down carbohydrates, fatty acids and peptides on the skin into volatiles that mosquitoes can differentiate.

Results

Here, we examined how skin microbiome composition of women differs in relation to level of attractiveness to Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes, to identify volatiles in body odour and metabolic pathways associated with individuals that tend to be poorly-attractive to mosquitoes. We used behavioural assays to measure attractiveness of participants to An. coluzzii mosquitoes, 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of the bacteria sampled from the skin and gas chromato

SUBMITTER: Showering A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9004177 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature