Field evaluation of the establishment potential of wMelPop Wolbachia in Australia and Vietnam for dengue control

Introduced Wolbachia bacteria can influence the susceptibility of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to arboviral infections as well as having detrimental effects on host fitness. Previous field trials demonstrated that the wMel strain of Wolbachia effectively and durably invades Ae. aegypti populations. Here...

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Main Authors: Nguyen, T, Nguyen, H, Vu, S, Tran, N, Le, T, Vien, Q, Bui, T, Le, H, Kutcher, S, Hurst, T, Duong, T, Jeffery, J, Darbro, J, Kay, B, Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I, Popovici, J, Montgomery, B, Turley, A, Zigterman, F, Cook, H, Cook, P, Johnson, P, Ryan, P, Paton, C, Ritchie, S, Simmons, C, O'Neill, S, Hoffmann, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015