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How does competition among wild type mosquitoes influence the performance of Aedes aegypti and dissemination of Wolbachia pipientis?

BACKGROUND: Wolbachia has been deployed in several countries to reduce transmission of dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses. During releases, Wolbachia-infected females are likely to lay their eggs in local available breeding sites, which might already be colonized by local Aedes sp. mosquitoes. The...

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Autores principales: de Oliveira, Suellen, Villela, Daniel Antunes Maciel, Dias, Fernando Braga Stehling, Moreira, Luciano Andrade, Maciel de Freitas, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28991902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005947