Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7361, 2011, Pages 454-459

  Hoffmann, A A ^a   Montgomery, B L ^b   Popovici, J ^b,c   Iturbe Ormaetxe, I ^b,c   Johnson, P H ^d   Muzzi, F ^b   Greenfield, M ^b   Durkan, M ^b   Leong, Y S ^b   Dong, Y ^b,c   Cook, H ^b   Axford, J ^a   Callahan, A G ^a   Kenny, N ^b,c   Omodei, C ^d   McGraw, E A ^b,c   Ryan, P A ^b,c,e   Ritchie, S A ^d   Turelli, M ^f   O'Neill, S L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FITNESS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; MOSQUITO;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; QUEENSLAND; TIME FACTORS; WOLBACHIA;

AUSTRALIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 80051510985     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10356     Document Type: Article

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