Combining Wolbachia-induced sterility and virus protection to fight Aedes albopictus-borne viruses

Riccardo Moretti; Pei-Shi Yen; Vincent Houé; Elena Lampazzi; Angiola Desiderio; Anna-Bella Failloux; Maurizio Calvitti

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006626

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Combining Wolbachia-induced sterility and virus protection to fight Aedes albopictus-borne viruses

Riccardo Moretti ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: riccardo.moretti@enea.it

Affiliation Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1654-9383

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Pei-Shi Yen ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Shi Yen, Vincent Houé

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Arboviruses and Insect Vectors Unit, Paris, France
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Vincent Houé ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pei-Shi Yen, Vincent Houé

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Arboviruses and Insect Vectors Unit, Paris, France
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Elena Lampazzi,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy
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Angiola Desiderio,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy
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Anna-Bella Failloux,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Arboviruses and Insect Vectors Unit, Paris, France
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Maurizio Calvitti

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology and Agroindustry Division, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Casaccia Research Center, Rome, Italy
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Combining Wolbachia-induced sterility and virus protection to fight Aedes albopictus-borne viruses

Riccardo Moretti,
Pei-Shi Yen,
Vincent Houé,
Elena Lampazzi,
Angiola Desiderio,
Anna-Bella Failloux,
Maurizio Calvitti

Published: July 18, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006626

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