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pointed out that the study was predominantly based on cell culture work, but added that it was still a good start to understand this mechanism. “It just builds on what is known about Wolbachia ...

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The Jakarta Provincial Government and Health Ministry (Kemenkes) are about to launch a program to release Wolbachia-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Jakarta.

Among the partly very cost-intensive measures of vector control are spraying insecticides as well as releasing mosquitoes infected with the naturally occurring bacterium Wolbachia. The bacterium ...