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SUBMITTER: Flores HA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7179939 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Flores Heather A HA Taneja de Bruyne Jyotika J O'Donnell Tanya B TB Tuyet Nhu Vu V Thi Giang Nguyen N Thi Xuan Trang Huynh H Thi Thuy Van Huynh H Thi Long Vo V Thi Dui Le L Le Anh Huy Huynh H Thi Le Duyen Huynh H Thi Van Thuy Nguyen N Thanh Phong Nguyen N Van Vinh Chau Nguyen N Thi Hue Kien Duong D Thuy Vi Tran T Wills Bridget B O'Neill Scott L SL Simmons Cameron P CP Carrington Lauren B LB
PLoS pathogens 20200413 4
The insect bacterium Wolbachia pipientis is being introgressed into Aedes aegypti populations as an intervention against the transmission of medically important arboviruses. Here we compare Ae. aegypti mosquitoes infected with wMelCS or wAlbB to the widely used wMel Wolbachia strain on an Australian nuclear genetic background for their susceptibility to infection by dengue virus (DENV) genotypes spanning all four serotypes. All Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were more resistant to intrathoracic D ...[more]