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Fighting Mosquitoes with Mosquitoes

Molecular Medicine Communications, 2022
A first-of-its-kind open-air study of genetically engineered mosquitoes has been conducted by scientists in the US. The biotechnology company Oxitec, spearheading these experiments, claims to have obtained positive results. However, much more elaborate and intricate studies are needed to establish whether these mosquitoes can suppress a wild population
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Wolbachia detection in insects through LAMP: loop mediated isothermal amplification

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background The bacterium Wolbachia is a promising agent for the biological control of vector-borne diseases as some strains have the ability to block the transmission of key human disease-causing pathogens.
Daniela da Silva Gonçalves, Anna Paula Alvim Cassimiro, Caroline Dantas de Oliveira, Nilton Barnabé Rodrigues, Luciano Andrade Moreira   +4 more
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Primera cita de Culex interrogator (Diptera: Culicidae) para la Hispaniola y actualización del listado de mosquitos de Jarabacoa, República Dominicana

Novitates Caribaea, 2020
Desde que dio inicio el nuevo siglo, varios estudios sobre la culicidofauna de la Hispaniola han elevado el conocimiento de este grupo de artrópodos, muy relevantes desde el punto de vista médico y veterinario.
María Altagracia Rodríguez Sosa, Juan Rueda, Roddy Jesús Pichardo Rodríguez, Yohan Enmanuel Vásquez Bautista, Jesús Confesor Durán Tiburcio, Rigoberto Fimia-Duarte, Pedro María Alarcón-Elbal   +6 more
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Dietary Influences on the Longevity and Reproductive Success of Anopheles aquasalis in Laboratory Studies: Sucrose vs. Honey

Insects
Malaria continues to be a major public health challenge in tropical and subtropical regions. Anopheles aquasalis, a key laboratory model for malaria research, plays a critical role in the study of vector–parasite interactions. Although vector life traits
Fernanda Oliveira Rezende, Dimas Augusto da Silva, Sara Comini, Silvana de Mendonça, Ellen Santos, Lívia Baldon, Bruno Marçal, Amanda Cupertino de Freitas, Rafaela Moreira, Viviane Sousa, Mariana Lima, Marcele Rocha, Luciano A. Moreira, Alvaro Ferreira   +13 more
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Avaliação de métodos de amostragem da Culicidofauna (Diptera: Culicidae) no semiárido do Brasil

Entomology Beginners, 2022
Avaliamos o desempenho de três diferentes métodos de amostragem da culicidofauna em uma área de Caatinga. Para isto, usamos três diferentes tipos de armadilhas - ovitrampa, larvitrampa e armadilha do tipo Shannon, para coletas mensais durante dois anos.
Renato César de Melo Freire , Taciano Moura Barbosa, Roseli La Corte , Renata Antonaci Gama   +3 more
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Odors: from chemical structures to gaseous plumes [PDF]

, 2020
We are immersed within an odorous sea of chemical currents that we parse into individual odors with complex structures. Odors have been posited as determined by the structural relation between the molecules that compose the chemical compounds and their ...
Escalon, James A., Mathew, Dennis, Young, Benjamin D.   +2 more
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Nuevos registros de distribución para Uranotaenia sapphirina (Osten Sacken, 1868) (Diptera: Culicidae) en Quintana Roo, México

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2021
Se realizaron colectas de larvas de culícidos en tres localidades del estado de Quintana Roo, México (Leona Vicario, Cacao y Ramonal) durante los meses de abril y mayo de 2021.
Karla Leticia Canto-Mis, Rahuel J. Chan-Chable, Ángel S. Gómez-Rivera, Xinia Yazmín López-Sosa, Cassandra González-Acosta, Fabián Correa-Morales, Pedro C. Mis Ávila   +6 more
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Is the United States Prepared for a Major Zika Virus Outbreak? [PDF]

, 2016
Zika virus has emerged as a global public health crisis with active transmission in the Americas and Caribbean. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), and recently WHO reported there is a ...
Gostin, Lawrence O., Hodge, James G., Jr.   +1 more
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Wolbachia wMel and wAlbB strains differentially impact the vector competence of Aedes aegypti with a Brazilian genetic background for DENV-1 virus

Parasites & Vectors
Background Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis have been released as a sustainable strategy to mitigate arbovirus transmission.
Carolina Boucinha Martins, Mariana Rocha David, Dinair Couto-Lima, Jessica Corrêa-Antônio, Rayane Teles-de-Freitas, Manuella Mello-Barbosa, Renke Lühken, Ary Hoffmann, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Márcio Galvão Pavan   +9 more
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DENV-1 Titer Impacts Viral Blocking in wMel Aedes aegypti with Brazilian Genetic Background

Viruses
Several countries have been using Wolbachia deployments to replace highly competent native Aedes aegypti populations with Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes with lower susceptibility to arboviruses such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.
Jessica Corrêa-Antônio, Mariana R. David, Dinair Couto-Lima, Gabriela Azambuja Garcia, Milan S. G. Keirsebelik, Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas, Márcio Galvão Pavan   +6 more
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