Developing Wolbachia-based disease interventions for an extreme environment.

Developing Wolbachia-based disease interventions for an extreme environment.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying self-spreading, virus-blocking Wolbachia bacteria are being deployed to suppress dengue transmission. However, there are challenges in applying this technology in extreme environments. We introduced two Wolbachia strains into Ae. aegypti from Saudi Arabia for a rele...

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Main Authors: Perran A Ross, Samia Elfekih, Sophie Collier, Melissa J Klein, Su Shyan Lee, Michael Dunn, Sarah Jackson, Yexin Zhang, Jason K Axford, Xinyue Gu, Jessica L Home, Majed S Nassar, Prasad N Paradkar, Essam A Tawfik, Francis M Jiggins, Abdulaziz M Almalik, Mohamed B Al-Fageeh, Ary A Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011117

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011117

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