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Human-Mediated Marine Dispersal Influences the Population Structure of Aedes aegypti in the Philippine Archipelago.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Jan 2015
Fonzi Eugenio, Higa Yukiko, Bertuso Arlene G, Futami Kyoko, Minakawa Noboru
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BACKGROUND: Dengue virus (DENV) is an extraordinary health burden on global scale, but still lacks effective vaccine. The Philippines is endemic for dengue fever, but massive employment of insecticides favored the development of resistance mutations in its major vector, Aedes aegypti. Alternative vector control strategies consist in releasing artificially modified mosquitos in the wild, but knowledge on their...
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