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A Reduce and Replace Strategy for Suppressing Vector-Borne Diseases: Insights from a Deterministic Model

Genetic approaches for controlling disease vectors have aimed either to reduce wild-type populations or to replace wild-type populations with insects that cannot transmit pathogens. Here, we propose a Reduce and Replace (R&R) strategy in which released insects have both female-killing and anti-p...

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Autores principales: Robert, Michael A., Okamoto, Kenichi, Lloyd, Alun L., Gould, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073233