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SUBMITTER: Carrington LB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5777059 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171226 2
The <i>w</i>Mel strain of <i>Wolbachia</i> can reduce the permissiveness of <i>Aedes aegypti</i> mosquitoes to disseminated arboviral infections. Here, we report that <i>w</i>Mel-infected <i>Ae. aegypti</i> (Ho Chi Minh City background), when directly blood-fed on 141 viremic dengue patients, have lower dengue virus (DENV) transmission potential and have a longer extrinsic incubation period than their wild-type counterparts. The <i>w</i>Mel-infected mosquitoes that are field-reared have even gre ...[more]