[PDF] Top 20 Strategies for introducing Wolbachia to reduce transmission of mosquito-borne diseases.

... Introducing Wolbachia into mosquito populations can lead to a reduction in the transmission of mosquito-borne ...release of equal numbers of male and ... See full document

... features of the natural dynamics of Wolbachia that have to be present in the model are the vertical trans- mission and the peculiar interference on the reproductive outcomes induced by ... See full document

... vector-borne diseases lack effective vaccines and medications, and the limitations of traditional vector control have inspired novel approaches based on using genetic engi- neering to ... See full document

... number of insects and other arthropod species (Werren et ...Some Wolbachia strains are also described as symbionts of filarial nematodes that infect humans and cause diseases such as river ... See full document

... tool to facilitate the understanding of Wolbachia-pathogen interaction notably through electron microscopic observations of cell structural changes, and transcriptomic or proteomic studies ... See full document

... epidemiology of JE would also be favorable for Wolbachia-based ...release of “JEV-refractory” Cx. tritaeniorhynchus could break the transmission cycle (Fig 1B) at various ...circulation ... See full document

... compartment of infected vectors. The larger proportion of infected vectors in the presence of resistance was also observed in laboratory experiments in ...strains of Anopheles gambiae, the ... See full document

... hood of Recife, Brazil, the trapping effects of a combi- nation Bti-GI ...preference of females to oviposit in those traps containing ...series of ovi- position assays in a choice ... See full document

... Faced with problems that are specific to the health sector and ones associated with issues of sustainability, programmes for the control of vector-borne diseases are increasingly resorti[r] ... See full document

... hundreds of genes have been shown to be expressed during the parasite life cycle, to date, only a few of them have been cloned and expressed and even fewer have been tested for vaccine ... See full document

... number of infections; however, the number of deaths and the case-fatality rate continues to be unac- ...burden of AIDS-related cryptococcosis in Latin America and discuss potential ... See full document

... custody of the Portuguese Ministry of Health ...Directorate of Health (DGS), the five Regional Health Administrations (ARS), namely Algarve, Alentejo, Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Centro and Norte, the ... See full document

... hundreds of thousands of individuals annually in sub-Saharan ...cases to below 10,000 annually, bringing complete elimination within ...technology to eliminate HAT involves render- ing the ... See full document

... quality of the water of Água Preta Lake, which is part of the public supply for the Northern Brazilian municipality of Belém (Pará ...each of six sampling points. The concentration ... See full document

... sequenced to obtain pbggcs-TOPO plasmid. To generate the 39 targeting region, a fragment of 754 bp was digested from pbggcs- TOPO plasmid with the HincII/ NotI enzymes and cloned into EcoRV/NotI ... See full document

... complication of severe sepsis, and progression to acute lung injury is most commonly caused by sepsis ...trial of granulocyte colony stimulating factor in severe sepsis due to melioidosis in ... See full document

... pathogens, transmission is usually direct and follows a passage from host to host or host to environment to host ...pathway. Transmission can be horizontal or vertical. Horizontal ... See full document

... duced the number of new insecticides that can be used for public health.. Another consequence of the massive use of.[r] ... See full document

... µl of orthophenylene- diamine (OPD) substrate solution were ...filter of 492 nm. Standardization of assay - The antigen was at- tached to the solid-phase on microtitre plates at a ... See full document

... refer to the costs associated with cases of ...D(x) to refer to the cu- mulative distribution of these costs for a hypothetical ...equal to 0. However, there is some probability ... See full document