[Poster23] Medical and Veterinary Entomology

[P0858] Characterisation of the tissue and strain-specific microbiota of members of the Anopheles funestus Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) group

*Chia-Yu Chen^1,2, Ashley Burke^1,2, Wai-Yin Chan^3,4, Givemore Munhenga^2,1, Arshad Ismail³, Shüné Oliver^2,1 (1. : Wits Research Institute for Malaria, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), 2. Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (South Africa), 3. Sequencing Core Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (South Africa), 4. Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology (BGM) and Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria (South Africa))