3 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Travelling Waves in Wolbachia Spread Dynamics
Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu, Eddy Kwessi
Wolbachia, a maternally transmitted endosymbiont, offers a powerful biological control strategy for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, Zika, and malaria. We develop an integro…
q-bio.PE2025
Improving Wolbachia-Based Control Programs in Urban Settings: Insights from Spatial Modeling
Daniela Florez, Ricardo Cortez, James M. Hyman +1
Arboviral diseases remain a major public health concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions where mosquito populations thrive. One promising strategy to curb transmis…
q-bio.PE2024
Multistage spatial model for informing release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes as disease control
Zhuolin Qu, Tong Wu
Wolbachia is a naturally occurring bacterium that can infect Aedes mosquitoes and reduce the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue fever, Zika, and chikungunya.…