Large-scale releases and establishment of wMel Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes throughout the Cities of Bello, Medellín and Itagüí, Colombia.

• Main Authors: Iván Darío Velez (Author), Alexander Uribe (Author), Jovany Barajas (Author), Sandra Uribe (Author), Sandra Ángel (Author), Juan David Suaza-Vasco (Author), Maria Camila Mejia Torres (Author), María Patricia Arbeláez (Author), Eduardo Santacruz-Sanmartin (Author), Lorena Duque (Author), Luis Martínez (Author), Tania Posada (Author), Ana Cristina Patiño (Author), Sandra Milena Gonzalez (Author), Ana Lucía Velez (Author), Jennifer Ramírez (Author), Marlene Salazar (Author), Sandra Gómez (Author), Jorge E Osorio (Author), Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe (Author), Yi Dong (Author), Frederico C Muzzi (Author), Edwige Rances (Author), Petrina H Johnson (Author), Ruth Smithyman (Author), Bruno Col (Author), Benjamin R Green (Author), Tibor Frossard (Author), Jack Brown-Kenyon (Author), D Albert Joubert (Author), Nelson Grisales (Author), Scott A Ritchie (Author), Jai A Denton (Author), Jeremie R L Gilles (Author), Katherine L Anders (Author), Simon C Kutcher (Author), Peter A Ryan (Author), Scott L O'Neill (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>The wMel strain of Wolbachia has been successfully introduced into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and has been shown to reduce the transmission of dengue and other Aedes-borne viruses. Here we report the entomological results from phased, large-scale releases of Wolbachia in...