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Bacterium offers way to control dengue fever

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Wolbachia strain halts virus in mosquitoes.

A common bacterium that infects mosquitoes is showing promise as a way to control the spread of dengue fever.

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  1. Walker, T. et al. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10355 (2011).

  2. Hoffmann, A. A. et al. Nature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10356 (2011).

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  1. Natasha Gilbert
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Gilbert, N. Bacterium offers way to control dengue fever. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.503

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