Exploiting Intimate Relationships: Controlling Mosquito-Transmitted Disease with Wolbachia

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 207-218

  Caragata, Eric P ^a   Dutra, Heverton L C ^a   Moreira, Luciano A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dengue; Disease control; Host symbiont interactions; Malaria; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MICROFLORA; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO TRANSMITTED DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA INFECTION; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84960103212     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.10.011     Document Type: Review

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