The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations

Nature

Volumn 476, Issue 7361, 2011, Pages 450-455

  Walker, T ^a   Johnson, P H ^c   Moreira, L A ^a,g   Iturbe Ormaetxe, I ^a   Frentiu, F D ^a   McMeniman, C J ^a,h   Leong, Y S ^a   Dong, Y ^a   Axford, J ^b   Kriesner, P ^b   Lloyd, A L ^d,e   Ritchie, S A ^c   O'Neill, S L ^a,f   Hoffmann, A A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^h ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDOSYMBIONT; HEALTH RISK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOSQUITO; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMBRYO; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT DISEASE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SALIVA; WOLBACHIA;

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

EID: 80051511670     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10355     Document Type: Article

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