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Zika Virus Mosquito Vectors: Competence, Biology, and Vector Control [PDF]

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Zika virus (ZIKV) (Flaviviridae, Flavivirus) has become one of the most medically important mosquito-borne viruses because of its ability to cause microcephaly in utero and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults. This virus emerged from its sylvatic cycle in Africa to cause an outbreak in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia in 2007, French Polynesia in 2014,
Elizabeth B, Kauffman, Laura D, Kramer
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Automating the Surveillance of Mosquito Vectors from Trapped Specimens Using Computer Vision Techniques

, 2020
Among all animals, mosquitoes are responsible for the most deaths worldwide. Interestingly, not all types of mosquitoes spread diseases, but rather, a select few alone are competent enough to do so. In the case of any disease outbreak, an important first
Bharti, Pratool, Carney, Ryan M., Chellappan, Sriram, McClinton III, Willie B., Minakshi, Mona, Mirzakhalov, Jamshidbek   +5 more
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Impact of salinization and pollution of groundwater on the adaptation of mosquito vectors in the Jaffna peninsula, Sri Lanka

Ceylon Journal of Science, 2020
Mosquito-borne diseases are a major health concern in many tropical and sub-tropical countries. In the absence of specific treatment for many mosquito-borne diseases, vector control in the form of eliminating preimaginal development sites and insecticide
S.N. Surendran, M. Senthilnanthanan, T.T.P. Jayadas, S.H.P.P. Karunaratne, R. Ramasamy   +4 more
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New adhesive traps to monitor urban mosquitoes with a case study to assess the efficacy of insecticide control strategies in temperate areas [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Urban mosquitoes in temperate regions may represent a high nuisance and are associated with the risk of arbovirus transmission. Common practices to reduce this burden, at least in Italian highly infested urban areas, imply calendar-based ...
Caputo, Beniamino, DELLA TORRE, Alessandra, Ienco, Annamaria, Manica, Mattia, Petrarca, Vincenzo, Rosà, Roberto   +5 more
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A Multi-Species Simulation of Mosquito Disease Vector Development in Temperate Australian Tidal Wetlands Using Publicly Available Data

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Worldwide, mosquito monitoring and control programs consume large amounts of resources in the effort to minimise mosquito-borne disease incidence. On-site larval monitoring is highly effective but time consuming.
Kerry Staples, Steven Richardson, Peter J. Neville, Jacques Oosthuizen   +3 more
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Spatial and temporal dynamics of malaria transmission in rural western Kenya [PDF]

, 2012
: BACKGROUND: Understanding the impact of reducing Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission requires estimates of the relationship between health outcomes and exposure to infectious mosquitoes. However, measures of exposure such as mosquito density and
Amek, N., Bayoh, N., Gimnig, J., Hamel, M., Laserson, K. F., Lindblade, K. A., Odhiambo, F., Slutsker, L., Smith, T., Vounatsou, P.   +9 more
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Characterization of a broad-based mosquito yeast interfering RNA larvicide with a conserved target site in mosquito semaphorin-1a genes [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: RNA interference (RNAi), which has facilitated functional characterization of mosquito neural development genes such as the axon guidance regulator semaphorin-1a (sema1a), could one day be applied as a new means of vector control ...
Duman-Scheel, Molly, Hapairai, Limb K., Li, Ping, Mysore, Keshava, Realey, Jacob S., Scheel, Nicholas D., Severson, David W., Sun, Longhua, Wang, Chien-Wei, Wei, Na   +9 more
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Not all mosquitoes are created equal: A synthesis of vector competence experiments reinforces virus associations of Australian mosquitoes.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
The globalization of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases has placed more than half of the human population at risk. Understanding arbovirus ecology, including the role individual mosquito species play in virus transmission cycles, is critical for limiting ...
Morgan P Kain, Eloise B Skinner, Tejas S Athni, Ana L Ramirez, Erin A Mordecai, Andrew F van den Hurk   +5 more
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How effective is integrated vector management against malaria and lymphatic filariasis where the diseases are transmitted by the same vector? [PDF]

, 2014
The opportunity to integrate vector management across multiple vector-borne diseases is particularly plausible for malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF) control where both diseases are transmitted by the same vector.
Chitnis, Nakul, Lindsay, Steve W., Stone, Christopher M.   +2 more
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization--time of flight mass spectrometry: an emerging tool for the rapid identification of mosquito vectors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: The identification of mosquito vectors is typically based on morphological characteristics using morphological keys of determination, which requires entomological expertise and training.
Amina Yssouf, Cristina Socolovschi, Christophe Flaudrops, Mamadou Ousmane Ndiath, Seynabou Sougoufara, Jean-Sebastien Dehecq, Guillaume Lacour, Jean-Michel Berenger, Cheikh Sadibou Sokhna, Didier Raoult, Philippe Parola   +10 more
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