Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

Fla?vio Carvalho, World Mosquito Program Brazil Excited about their findings on the effects of Wolbachia in arboviruses transmitted by mosquitoes, O’Neill and Moreira saw the endosymbiont as a ...

It involves breeding mosquitoes infected with a common bacteria called Wolbachia that can block the insect's ability to transmit dengue. Five years ago, Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were ...

The mosquitoes would be inoculated with a bacteria known as Wolbachia, which naturally occurs in the eggs and sperm of many insect species. When an incompatible strain of the bacteria is ...

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has denied that Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes have been released in Negeri Sembilan, as claimed in a video that has gone viral on social media. Health deputy ...

This finding supports the potential combination of transgenic fungi with other mosquito control strategies, such as the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) and Wolbachia-based approaches. Interestingly ...

Six Brazilian municipalities are to receive shortly the first batch of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wolbachia bacteria, a kind of Trojan horse to decimate the community of infected ...

This bacteria, called Wolbachia, affects mosquito reproduction. Luka Zavas, outreach manager with the American Bird Conservancy, one of the agencies involved in the project, explains how it works.

For instance, a study developed a model that includes the maturation period of wild mosquitoes, allowing for a more accurate representation of population dynamics when releasing Wolbachia-infected ...

Those dengue mosquitoes, which carry Wolbachia bacteria, were released into the community 15 years ago and now the disease is almost non-existent. "It is quite unusual to get a breakthrough case ...