Effectiveness of Wolbachia-infected mosquito deployments in reducing the incidence of dengue and other Aedes-borne diseases in Niterói, Brazil: A quasi-experimental study

The introduction of the bacterium Wolbachia (wMel strain) into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reduces their capacity to transmit dengue and other arboviruses. Evidence of a reduction in dengue case incidence following field releases of wMel-infected Ae. aegypti has been reported previously from a cluster...

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Published in:	PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 15; no. 7; p. e0009556
Main Authors:	Pinto, Sofia B., Riback, Thais I. S., Sylvestre, Gabriel, Costa, Guilherme, Peixoto, Julia, Dias, Fernando B. S., Tanamas, Stephanie K., Simmons, Cameron P., Dufault, Suzanne M., Ryan, Peter A., O’Neill, Scott L., Muzzi, Frederico C., Kutcher, Simon, Montgomery, Jacqui, Green, Benjamin R., Smithyman, Ruth, Eppinghaus, Ana, Saraceni, Valeria, Durovni, Betina, Anders, Katherine L., Moreira, Luciano A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 01.07.2021 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adults Aedes Aedes - microbiology Aedes - physiology Aedes - virology Aedes aegypti Animals Aquatic insects Bacteria Biological control Biology and Life Sciences Brazil - epidemiology Chikungunya Fever - epidemiology Chikungunya Fever - transmission Chikungunya Fever - virology Chikungunya virus Chikungunya virus - physiology Communication Community involvement Community participation Confidence intervals Culicidae Dengue Dengue - epidemiology Dengue - transmission Dengue - virology Dengue fever Dengue Virus - physiology Design of experiments Experimental design Female Health aspects Heterogeneity Human diseases Humans Incidence Intervention Introgression Laboratories Male Medicine and Health Sciences Mosquito Control - methods Mosquito Vectors - microbiology Mosquito Vectors - physiology Mosquito Vectors - virology Mosquitoes Neighborhoods Patchiness People and places Population Populations Prevention Public health Quasi-experimental methods Reduction Spatial heterogeneity Time series Tropical diseases Urban areas Urban environments Vector-borne diseases Wolbachia Wolbachia - physiology Zika virus Zika Virus - physiology Zika Virus Infection - epidemiology Zika Virus Infection - transmission Zika Virus Infection - virology Brazil Rio de Janeiro Brazil United States > US Indonesia
ISSN:	1935-2735, 1935-2727, 1935-2735
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