Efficacy of Wolbachia-mediated sterility to reduce the incidence of dengue: a synthetic control study in Singapore

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lim, Jue Tao, Bansal, Somya, Chong, Chee Seng, Dickens, Borame, Ng, Youming, Deng, Lu, Lee, Caleb, Tan, Li Yun, Chain, Grace, Ma, Pei, Sim, Shuzhen, Tan, Cheong Huat, Cook, Alex R., Ng, Lee Ching
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Wolbachia; Dengue
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178612

Background: Due to the absence of available therapeutics and good vaccines, vector control solutions are needed to mitigate the spread of dengue. Matings between male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wAlbB strain of Wolbachia and wildtype females yield non-viable eggs. We evaluated the eff...