1. Recommendations for environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications for malaria vector control
- Author
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Connolly, John B, Mumford, John D, Glandorf, Debora CM, Hartley, Sarah, Lewis, Owen T, Evans, Sam Weiss, Turner, Geoff, Beech, Camilla, Sykes, Naima, Coulibaly, Mamadou B, Romeis, Jörg, Teem, John L, Tonui, Willy, Lovett, Brian, Mankad, Aditi, Mnzava, Abraham, Fuchs, Silke, Hackett, Talya D, Landis, Wayne G, Marshall, John M, and Aboagye-Antwi, Fred
- Subjects
Rare Diseases ,Gene Therapy ,Vector-Borne Diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,Malaria ,Prevention ,Genetics ,2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment ,Aetiology ,Infection ,Good Health and Well Being ,Animals ,Anopheles ,Gene Drive Technology ,Mosquito Control ,Mosquito Vectors ,Risk Assessment ,Gene drive ,Population suppression ,Vector control ,Environmental risk assessment ,Engagement ,Modelling ,Ecological risk ,Microbiology ,Medical Microbiology ,Public Health and Health Services ,Tropical Medicine - Abstract
Building on an exercise that identified potential harms from simulated investigational releases of a population suppression gene drive for malaria vector control, a series of online workshops identified nine recommendations to advance future environmental risk assessment of gene drive applications.
- Published
- 2022