Time to empower release of insects carrying a dominant lethal and Wolbachia against Zika

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Dickens, Borame L ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Cook, Alex R ^a   Carrasco, Luis R ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Health policy; RIDL; Vector control; Wolbachia; Zika

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LETHALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA; ZIKA FEVER;

EID: 84995592162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw103     Document Type: Article

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