Local introduction and heterogeneous spatial spread of dengue-suppressing Wolbachia through an urban population of Aedes aegypti

PLoS Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Schmidt, Tom L ^a   Barton, Nicholas H ^b   Rašić, Gordana ^a   Turley, Andrew P ^c   Montgomery, Brian L ^c   Iturbe Ormaetxe, Inaki ^c   Cook, Peter E ^c   Ryan, Peter A ^c   Ritchie, Scott A ^d   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a   O’Neill, Scott L ^c   Turelli, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN POPULATION; WOLBACHIA; AEDES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLONY COLLAPSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER HEURISTICS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEENSLAND; RECREATIONAL PARK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION; URBANIZATION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; COLONY COLLAPSE; COMPUTER HEURISTICS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; QUEENSLAND; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 85020195933     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001894     Document Type: Article

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