The olfactory basis of orchid pollination by mosquitoes. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less is understood about the mechanisms involved in nectar-feeding decisions, or ...
Akbari, Omar S +6 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021 Plasmodium transmission from humans to mosquitoes is an understudied bottleneck in the transmission of malaria. Direct membrane feeding assays (DMFA) allow detailed malaria transmission studies from humans to mosquitoes.
Lincoln Timinao +20 more
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Dengue fever and insecticide resistance in Aedes mosquitoes in Southeast Asia: a review
Parasites & Vectors, 2021 Dengue fever is the most important mosquito-borne viral disease in Southeast Asia. Insecticides remain the most effective vector control approach for Aedes mosquitoes.
Soon Jian Gan +6 more
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Egg-laying by female Aedes aegypti shapes the bacterial communities of breeding sites
BMC Biology, 2023 Background Aedes aegypti, the main arboviral mosquito vector, is attracted to human dwellings and makes use of human-generated breeding sites. Past research has shown that bacterial communities associated with such sites undergo compositional shifts as ...
Katherine D. Mosquera +6 more
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Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes as Vectors of Plasmodium vivax and falciparum, Horn of Africa, 2019
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, efficient vectors in parts of Asia and Africa, were found in 75.3% of water sources surveyed and contributed to 80.9% of wild-caught Anopheles mosquitoes in Awash Sebat Kilo, Ethiopia.
F. Tadesse +36 more
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GLOBE Mosquito Habitat Mapper Citizen Science Data 2017–2020
GeoHealth, 2021 The GLOBE Program's GLOBE Observer application is a free citizen science mobile data collection and visualization tool compatible with iOS and Android operating systems.
Russanne Low +3 more
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The impact of indoor residual spraying on malaria incidence in East Shoa Zone, Ethiopia [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2012 Background: In Ethiopia, nearly 70% of the population resides in areas prone to malaria infection. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of indoor residual spraying (IRS) on the incidence of malaria in East Shoa Zone of Ethiopia.Methods ...
Shallo Daba Hamusse +2 more
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Key to the females of Afrotropical Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
Malaria Journal, 2020 In 1987, Gillies and Coetzee published a pictorial key for the morphological identification of adult female mosquitoes. Since then, several new species of anopheline mosquitoes have been described.
M. Coetzee
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Monitoring of Dengue Virus in Field-caught Aedes Species (Diptera: Culicidae) by Molecular Method, from 2016 to 2017 in Southern Iran [PDF]
Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System, 2023 Background: Aedes mosquitoes transmit important arboviral diseases such as dengue to humans. This study was conducted to determine dengue virus infection in Aedes mosquitoes, emphasizing Aedes aegypti by Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction ...
Kourosh Azizi +8 more
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The Global Expansion of Dengue: How Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Enabled the First Pandemic Arbovirus.
Annual Review of Entomology, 2020 Dengue is an emerging viral disease principally transmitted by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti mosquito. It is one of the fastest-growing global infectious diseases, with 100-400 million new infections a year, and is now entrenched in a growing number of ...
O. Brady, Simon Iain Hay
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