Wolbachia ‐carrying Aedes mosquitoes for preventing dengue infection

T Fox, Y Sguassero, M Chaplin, W Rose… - Cochrane Database …, 2024‏ - cochranelibrary.com
Background Dengue is a global health problem of high significance, with 3.9 billion people
at risk of infection. The geographic expansion of dengue virus (DENV) infection has resulted …

Recent outbreak of Marburg virus disease: Could it be a threat for global public health?

M Sohan, M Shahriar, MA Bhuiyan… - Health Science …, 2022‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. BACKGROUND A dangerous communicable infection known as the Marburg virus
disease (MVD) has just been detected in Ghana following two fatalities, creating concern …

Estimating the effect of the wMel release programme on the incidence of dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a spatiotemporal modelling study

GR Dos Santos, B Durovni, V Saraceni… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022‏ - thelancet.com
Background Introgression of genetic material from species of the insect bacteria Wolbachia
into populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes has been shown in randomised and non …

Zika virus co-opts microRNA networks to persist in placental niches detected by spatial transcriptomics

ER Barrozo, MD Seferovic, MP Hamilton… - American journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Background Zika virus congenital infection evades double-stranded RNA detection and may
persist in the placenta for the duration of pregnancy without accompanying overt …

Revisão sistemática rápida: Efetividade da estratégia Wolbachia para enfrentamento às arboviroses

AA Angotti, JGST Silva, T Yonekura… - … de Salud Pública, 2024‏ - SciELO Public Health
Objetivo. Identificar e sintetizar evidências sobre efetividade e custo-efetividade da
metodologia Aedes com Wolbachia para redução dos casos de arboviroses. Método …

Assessing radiation-induced enzyme activation in Aedes aegypti: Potential challenges for SIT-based vector management

EB da Silva, SGL Florêncio, A Amaral… - Acta Tropica, 2025‏ - Elsevier
This study characterizes the Aedes aegypti population from Fernando de Noronha Island,
Pernambuco, Brazil, prior to implementing the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT). The main …

Wolbachia-induced inhibition of O'nyong nyong virus in Anopheles mosquitoes is mediated by Toll signaling and modulated by cholesterol

S Pujhari, GL Hughes, N Pakpour, Y Suzuki… - …, 2023‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Enhanced host immunity and competition for metabolic resources are two main competing
hypotheses for the mechanism of Wolbachia-mediated pathogen inhibition in arthropods …

Grand challenges in major tropical diseases: Part II

RC Menezes, IBB Ferreira, GL Rosier… - Frontiers in Tropical …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Tropical diseases pose a significant global health burden, particularly in develo**
countries. These diseases are caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses …

Estimating the impact of the wMel release program on dengue and chikungunya incidence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G Ribeiro dos Santos, B Durovni, V Saraceni… - Medrxiv, 2022‏ - medrxiv.org
Background Introgression of the insect bacterium Wolbachia into Aedes aegypti mosquito
populations been shown in randomised and non-randomised trials to reduce the incidence …

[PDF][PDF] Harnessing Wolbachia to Reduce Dengue Transmission - a Review

S Bordoloi, SA Khan, P Ghosh… - Indian Journal of …, 2024‏ - researchgate.net
In this article, we discuss the possible, underlying molecular and biological basis of dengue
case reduction by Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, their field releases trial, and …