Host feeding preferences of Anopheles species collected by manual aspiration, mechanical aspiration, and from a vehicle-mounted trap in the Toledo District, Belize, Central America. [PDF]
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Plant-Based Insect Repellents: A Review Of Their Efficacy, Development and Testing. [PDF]
Plant-based repellents have been used for generations in traditional practice as a personal protection measure against host-seeking mosquitoes. Knowledge on traditional repellent plants obtained through ethnobotanical studies is a valuable resource for ...
Maia, Marta Ferreira, Moore, Sarah J
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Background Knockdown resistance (kdr) is a well-characterized target-site insecticide resistance mechanism that is associated with DDT and pyrethroid resistance.
Lorena I. Orjuela +7 more
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An improved mosquito electrocuting trap that safely reproduces epidemiologically relevant metrics of mosquito human-feeding behaviours as determined by human landing catch [PDF]
Background: Reliable quantification of mosquito host—seeking behaviours is required to determine the efficacy of vector control methods. For malaria, the gold standard approach remains the risky human landing catch (HLC).
Ferguson, Heather M. +7 more
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Irritability to DDT of natural populations of the primary malaria vectors in Colombia. [PDF]
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A sequence of computational methods was used for predicting novel drug targets against drug resistant malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Comparative genomics, orthologous protein analysis among same and other malaria parasites and protein-protein ...
Altschul +45 more
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Mapping a knowledge-based malaria hazard index related to landscape using remote sensing : application to the cross-border area between French Guiana and Brazil [PDF]
Malaria remains one of the most common vector-borne diseases in the world and the definition of novel control strategies can benefit from the modeling of transmission processes.
Dessay, Nadine +7 more
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Mosquito vector control and biology in Latin America--a tenth symposium. [PDF]
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Epidemiology of Disappearing Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Case Study in Rural Amazonia [PDF]
Background: New frontier settlements across the Amazon Basin pose a major challenge for malaria elimination in Brazil. Here we describe the epidemiology of malaria during the early phases of occupation of farming settlements in Remansinho area, Brazilian
Barbosa, Susana +16 more
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