- 著者
- Hiroyuki Matsuoka Gen-ichiro Sano Ryuta Hattori Hiroyuki Tomita Daisuke S. Yamamoto Makoto Hirai
- 出版者
- Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine
- 雑誌
- Tropical Medicine and Health (ISSN:13488945)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.40, no.2, pp.47-53, 2012 (Released:2012-10-05)
- 参考文献数
- 20
- 被引用文献数
- 1 4
It has been proposed that transgenic mosquitoes can be used as a “flying syringe” for infectious disease control. We succeeded in generating a transgenic (TG) mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, excreting and discharging DsRed in saliva. DsRed was deposited on the membrane where the TG mosquito probed with its proboscis. Repeated feeding by the TG mosquitoes induced anti-DeRed as well as anti-SG antibodies in mice. This indicates that the TG mosquitoes can immunize the animal. Moreover, in this report, we employed a pre-immunization method before exposing mice to the TG mosquitoes. We injected DsRed to mice to prepare memory B cells and exposed the mice to bites by the TG mosquitoes excreting DsRed. The mice produced a higher titer of antibody to DsRed, suggesting that the bites from TG mosquitoes act as a booster and that primary immunization with a vaccine protein and exposure to TG mosquitoes excreting the vaccine protein in the saliva produces a synergistic effect.