A stage structured model for mosquito suppression with immigration by Mugen Huang, Zifeng Wang, Zixin Nie

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Fertility differences between two wild-type <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> lines correlate with differences in the expression of the <i>Jheh</i> gene, which codes for an enzyme deg... by O. V. Andreenkova, N. V. Adonyeva, V. M. Efimov, N.  E. Gruntenko

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Incompatible Aedes aegypti male releases as an intervention to reduce mosquito population-A field trial in Puerto Rico. by Liliana Sánchez-González, Jacob E Crawford, Laura E Adams, Grayson Brown, Kyle R Ryff, Mark Delorey, Jose Ruiz-Valcarcel, Nicole Nazario, Nexilianne Borrero, Julieanne Miranda, Sara N Mitchell, Paul I Howell, Johanna R Ohm, Charlie Behling, Brian Wasson, Craig Eldershaw, Bradley J White, Vanessa Rivera-Amill, Roberto Barrera, Gabriela Paz-Bailey

“…Preliminary evaluation revealed sub-optimal Wolbachia-male densities and impact on the wild-type population. …”
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Macrofilaricidal Activity in Wuchereria bancrofti after 2 Weeks Treatment with a Combination of Rifampicin plus Doxycycline by Alexander Yaw Debrah, Sabine Mand, Yeboah Marfo-Debrekyei, Linda Batsa, Anna Albers, Sabine Specht, Ute Klarmann, Kenneth Pfarr, Ohene Adjei, Achim Hoerauf

“…Patients were monitored for Wolbachia and microfilaria loads, antigenaemia, and filarial dance sign (FDS). …”
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Suppression of Aedes aegypti may not affect sympatric Aedes albopictus populations: findings from two years of entomological surveillance in Singapore by Wei Jian Wong, Cheong Huat Tan, Matthew Gregory Verkaik, Lee Ching Ng, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Chee-Seng Chong

“…Here we investigate these concerns within the context of a Wolbachia-based Ae. aegypti suppression programme in highly urban Singapore, where general mosquito management is sustained through environmental management. …”
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Stability Regions and Bifurcation Analysis of a Delayed Predator-Prey Model Caused from Gestation Period by Nikenasih Binatari, Fajar Adi-Kusumo, Lina Aryati

“…The system is motivated by natural disease management using the interactions between the original and the treated species populations, such as Aedes aegypti and Wolbachia mosquitoes, fertile and infertile pests as a pesticide’s effect, uninfected and infected cancer cells by an oncolytic virus, and so forth. …”
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Using Multicore Technologies to Speed Up Complex Simulations of Population Evolution by Mauricio Guevara-Souza, Edgar E. Vallejo

“…In our model, a native population of simulated vectors is inoculated with a small exogenous population of vectors that have been infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which confers immunity to the disease. …”
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Current Evidence on the Use of Antifilarial Agents in the Management of bancroftian Filariasis by Sumadhya Deepika Fernando, Chaturaka Rodrigo, Senaka Rajapakse

“…Recent trials have shown that doxycycline therapy against Wolbachia, an endosymbiotic bacterium of the parasite, is capable of reducing microfilaria rates and adult worm activity. …”
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Biological control, an excellent alternative in the fight against arbovirus transmitting vectors by Aliuska Tamayo Verdecia, Lizette Rodríguez Fernández, Miriela Roque Fernández, Marta María Capote Padilla, Caridad Gianicet Díaz Hernández, Dainiel Paz Bermúdez

“…The review presents experiences about biological controllers such as Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (Bti); B. sphaericus, Wolbachia bacteria, larvivorous fish, the use of nematodes, fungi and the application of the insect sterilization technique. …”
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Efficient k-mer based curation of raw sequence data: application in Drosophila suzukii by Gautier, Mathieu

“…We first used Clark software to build a dictionary of species-discriminating k–mers from the curated assemblies of 29 target drosophilid species (including D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. subpulchrella, or D. biarmipes) and 12 common drosophila pathogens and commensals (including Wolbachia). Counting the number of k–mers composing each query sample sequence that matched a discriminating k–mer from the dictionary provided a simple criterion for assignment to target species and evaluation of the entire sample. …”
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Dengue vector control in high-income, city settings: A scoping review of approaches and methods. by Anna Durrance-Bagale, Nirel Hoe, Jane Lai, Jonathan Wee Kent Liew, Hannah Clapham, Natasha Howard

“…Only 6 sources reported data on the effectiveness of a given method in reducing human DENV incidence or prevalence, 2 described effects of larval and adult control on Aedes DENV positivity, 20 reported effectiveness in reducing vector density, using insecticide, larvicide, source reduction, auto-dissemination of pyriproxyfen and Wolbachia, and only 1 described effects on human-vector contact.…”
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Addressing challenges in vector control: a review of current strategies and the imperative for novel tools in India’s combat against vector-borne diseases by Kuldeep Singh, Amit Sharma, Manju Rahi, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Kumar, Rajendra Baharia, Sam Joy

“…Genetic modification technologies (Sterile Insect Technique/Incompatible Insect Technique/Wolbachia transfection) are also upcoming strategies. …”
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Culex quinquefasciatus: status as a threat to island avifauna and options for genetic control by Tim Harvey-Samuel, Thomas Ant, Jolene Sutton, Chris N. Niebuhr, Samoa Asigau, Patricia Parker, Steven Sinkins, Luke Alphey

“…We also review the major options for the deployment of genetic control tools against Cx. quinquefasciatus, and discuss the current state of the field with a focus on radiation-based sterilisation, transgenic methods, and transinfections using the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia.…”
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Molecular Detection of Bartonella spp. in China and St. Kitts by Ke Huang, Patrick John Kelly, Jilei Zhang, Yi Yang, Weiguo Liu, Anwar Kalalah, Chengming Wang

“…., Coxiella burnetii, and Wolbachia) but reliably detected as few as two copies of the positive control (Bartonella henselae) per reaction. …”
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