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Maintaining Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Infected with Wolbachia
Published on: August 14, 2017
Restoration of pyrethroid susceptibility in a highly resistant Aedes aegypti population
Marissa K Grossman1, Valentin Uc-Puc2, Julian Rodriguez3
1Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA mzg175@psu.edu.
Abstract:
Insecticide resistance has evolved in disease vectors worldwide, creating the urgent need to either develop new control methods or restore insecticide susceptibility to regain use of existing tools. Here we show that phenotypic susceptibility can be restored in a highly resistant field-derived strain of Aedes aegypti in only 10 generations through rearing them in the absence of insecticide.
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