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Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika

RIDL (release of insects with dominant lethality) and Wolbachia are 2 potentially powerful tools in the fight against Zika, but their technological advancement is being hampered by policy barriers. In this study, we discuss what could be done to overcome these regulatory deadlocks.

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Autores principales: Dickens, Borame L., Yang, Jie, Cook, Alex R., Carrasco, Luis R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27419175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw103
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spelling pubmed-49435322016-07-14 Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika Dickens, Borame L. Yang, Jie Cook, Alex R. Carrasco, Luis R. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports RIDL (release of insects with dominant lethality) and Wolbachia are 2 potentially powerful tools in the fight against Zika, but their technological advancement is being hampered by policy barriers. In this study, we discuss what could be done to overcome these regulatory deadlocks. Oxford University Press 2016-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4943532/ /pubmed/27419175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw103 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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title Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika
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title_fullStr Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika
title_full_unstemmed Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika
title_short Time to Empower Release of Insects Carrying a Dominant Lethal and Wolbachia Against Zika
title_sort time to empower release of insects carrying a dominant lethal and wolbachia against zika
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943532/
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