Still, St. Leger says, completing relevant safety tests will take several years.
但St . Leger也承认，关于这一技术的完整的安全相关测试需要花费好几年的时间。
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"They want to kill slowly, extracting as many nutrients as possible so they can produce more spores, " says Raymond St. Leger, an entomologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
这些真菌尽可能的将蚊子死亡的过程控制得很缓慢，以达到释放出尽可能多的营养物质，这样就可以繁殖更多的真菌孢子。 “来自玛丽兰大学的昆虫学家 Raymond St. Leger这样说。