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It's well known that antibiotics can disrupt our gut bacteria.

But when mosquitoes snack on blood laced with antibiotics,

the same can happen to their microbiome.

And that depletion of gut bacteria actually increases mosquito's susceptibility to the malaria parasite,

meaning they may be more likely to host and then spread the disease-causing protozoan.

That's according to a study in the journal Nature Communications.

Researchers fed mosquitoes the blood of children infected with the malaria parasite.

They added a penicillin streptomycin

antibiotic cocktail to some samples and a control solution to others. Turns out the mosquitoes that

suck the blood doped with antibiotics were more likely to pick up the parasite. And those mosquitoes

appeared to gain some benefit from the antibiotics too. They live longer and had more offspring

than the other mosquitoes in the tests. So these commonly used antibiotics made the insects a more

powerful vector for malaria. Some antibiotics, of course, do inhibit malaria transmission.

Doxycycline, for example, is sometimes taken as a malaria prophylactic.

Different antibiotics may have different impacts, which could translate into an opposite effect than what we demonstrated in the paper.

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