A diagnostic primer pair to distinguish between wMel and wAlbB Wolbachia infections.

Detection of the Wolbachia endosymbiont in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes through real-time polymerase chain reaction assays is widely used during and after Wolbachia releases in dengue reduction trials involving the wMel and wAlbB strains. Although several different primer pairs have been applied in curr...

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Main Authors: Meng-Jia Lau, Ary A Hoffmann, Nancy M Endersby-Harshman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257781