Infectious Diseases: Antiviral Wolbachia Limits Dengue in Malaysia

Chrostek E 1 , Hurst GDD 2 , McGraw EA 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK. Electronic address: echrostek@liv.ac.uk
  • 2 Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
  • 3 Department of Entomology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Electronic address: bethmcgraw@gmail.com
Curr Biol, 2020 01 06;30(1):R30-R32.
PMID: 31910374 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.046

Abstract

Vector-borne viral diseases pose an urgent public health challenge, particularly in the tropics. Field releases of mosquitoes carrying bacterial symbionts that reduce vector competence are ongoing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Early results show that wAlbB Wolbachia can persist in mosquitoes in urban settings and decrease dengue incidence in humans.

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