Measurement of overall insecticidal effects in experimental hut trials [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: The 'overall insecticidal effect' is a key measure used to evaluate public health pesticides for indoor use in experimental hut trials.
A Le Menach +8 more
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Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Novel surveillance strategies are needed to detect the rapid and continuous emergence of infectious disease agents. Ideally, new sampling strategies should be simple to implement, technologically uncomplicated, and applicable to areas where ...
Bolay, Fatorma K +9 more
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VectorNet: Putting Vectors on the Map
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Public and animal health authorities face many challenges in surveillance and control of vector-borne diseases. Those challenges are principally due to the multitude of interactions between vertebrate hosts, pathogens, and vectors in continuously ...
Marieta Braks +15 more
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Comparative susceptibility of mosquito populations in North Queensland, Australia to oral infection with dengue virus. [PDF]
, 2014 Dengue is the most prevalent arthropod-borne virus, with at least 40% of the world's population at risk of infection each year. In Australia, dengue is not endemic, but viremic travelers trigger outbreaks involving hundreds of cases.
Anderson +47 more
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The impact of low erythrocyte density in human blood on the fitness and energetic reserves of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae [PDF]
, 2013 Background Anaemia is a common health problem in the developing world. This condition is characterized by a reduction in erythrocyte density, primarily from malnutrition and/or infectious diseases such as malaria.
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The Bioscientist, 2023 Mosquitoes are important vector of parasitic diseases. This study was conducted in Awka South LGA, Anambra State, between October 2017 and September 2018to determine the effects of rainfall, temperature, and relative humidity on mosquito species ...
K. C Irikannu +8 more
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Using a New Odour-Baited Device to Explore Options for Luring and Killing Outdoor-Biting Malaria Vectors: A Report on Design and Field Evaluation of the Mosquito Landing Box. [PDF]
, 2013 Mosquitoes that bite people outdoors can sustain malaria transmission even where effective indoor interventions such as bednets or indoor residual spraying are already widely used.
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Mosquito Control in Poland: Pro- and Anti-Environmental Activities
Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2014 Mosquito control in Poland is still dominated by the use of chemicals. Although it has been 13 years since the flood of the century, only in few cities and towns (Wroclaw, Gorzow Wielkopolski and Torun) various methods of mosquito control such as mapping
Gliniewicz Aleksandra +2 more
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Avian malaria co-infections confound infectivity and vector competence assays of Plasmodium homopolare. [PDF]
, 2018 Currently, there are very few studies of avian malaria that investigate relationships among the host-vector-parasite triad concomitantly. In the current study, we experimentally measured the vector competence of several Culex mosquitoes for a newly ...
Barker, Christopher M +5 more
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Phylogeny of Anopheles (Kerteszia) (Diptera: Culicidae) Using Mitochondrial Genes
Insects, 2020 Identification of mosquito species is necessary for determining the entomological components of malaria transmission, but it can be difficult in morphologically similar species. DNA sequences are largely used as an additional tool for species recognition,
Karin Kirchgatter +8 more
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