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Dynamics of the "popcorn" Wolbachia infection in outbred Aedes aegypti informs prospects for mosquito vector control.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2011
Yeap H L, Mee P, Walker T, Weeks A R, O'Neill S L, Johnson P, Ritchie S A, Richardson K M, Doig C, Endersby N M, Hoffmann A A
Abstract excerpt
Forty percent of the world's population is at risk of contracting dengue virus, which produces dengue fever with a potentially fatal hemorrhagic form. The wMelPop Wolbachia infection of Drosophila melanogaster reduces life span and interferes with viral transmission when introduced into the mosquito Aedes aegypti, the primary vector of dengue virus. Wolbachia has been proposed as an agent for preventing...
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