Wolbachia Biocontrol Strategies for Arboviral Diseases and the Potential Influence of Resident Wolbachia Strains in Mosquitoes

Current Tropical Medicine Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-25

  Jeffries, Claire L ^a   Walker, Thomas ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arboviruses; Mosquito biocontrol; Mosquitoes; Wolbachia bacteria

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ARBOVIRUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CROSS BREEDING; CULEX; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DENGUE; DROSOPHILA; HAEMAGOGUS SPEGAZZINII; INSECT CONTROL; MANSONIA TITILLANS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOROPHORA CONFINNIS; REVIEW; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 85007096681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21963045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40475-016-0066-2     Document Type: Review

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