# 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology & the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology

8-12 July 2018
Australia/Sydney timezone

## Comparing the effectiveness of different strains of ${\textit Wolbachia}$ for controlling Chikungunya, Dengue fever, and Zika

Not scheduled
20m
Oral Presentation Disease - infectious

### Speaker

Dr Ling Xue (Harbin Engineering University )

### Description

Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are less capable of transmitting dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya and have shorter lifespan. In this talk, I present the mathematical model developed to quantify the impact of infecting wild Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes with wAlbB and wMel strains of Wolbachia in reducing the transmission of these diseases. The model accounts for the behaviour changes of the infectious population created by differences in the malaise caused by these diseases. The differences among the diseases, mosquitoes, and Wolbachia strains are captured by the model parameters for the mosquito-human transmission cycle.

### Primary authors

Dr Ling Xue (Harbin Engineering University ) Xin Fang (Harbin Engineering University) Dr James M. Hyman (Tulane University)

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