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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"mosquito control"”.
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Exploiting Sugar Feeding Behaviors For Mosquito Control
Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet killing about a million people a year. These insects are competent vectors of multiple pathogens (e.g., Plasmodium sp, filarial worms, and arboviruses). In most species, females are blood feeders, and must consume a blood meal to complete a …
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Occupational Hazards Among Mosquito Control Operators And Other Pesticide Handlers
The rise of mosquito-borne diseases is a serious public health concern. Mosquito control employees work within municipal/county health departments, public works, private companies, and other agencies. These outdoor workers encounter various occupational health and safety hazards, including exposure …
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Epidemiological Landscapes: The Spaces and Politics of Mosquito Control in Lahore
… role of urban environments in the spread and control of infectious diseases. The dangerous intimacies of humans and disease-carrying mosquitoes in urban environments are particularly heightened by ongoing infrastructural fragmentations, economic and social precarity, global climate change, …
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Expanding Genetic and Genomic Resources for Sex Separation and Mosquito Control Strategies
Mosquitoes belonging to the genera Anopheles transmit malaria parasites, attributing the highest mortality of any vector-borne disease worldwide. Mosquitoes belonging to the genera Aedes transmit arboviruses including dengue, which has become the most important vector-borne virus due to a drastic …
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Introducing a Health Education Program on Malaria Disease at Nkanu Local Government Area - Nigeria
… of a health education program on malaria disease control among the citizens of Nkanu-local government area, a community in Nigeria. Before the program was introduced to the treatment group, 50 subjects were randomly selected from a neighboring community and were exposed to survey questionnaire …
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Social and ecological risk factors for mosquito production in residential neighborhoods
Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) transmit many pathogens that affect human and wildlife health, including West Nile, Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. Since vaccines are not currently available for many of these pathogens, control of the vectors is the most effective method to reduce disease …
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Perceptions of measures to control Aedes mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases in Costa Rica
Aedes mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of several arboviruses throughout tropical and subtropical regions of the world. In the Americas, Aedes aegypti is the most competent vector of dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever. With up to 400 million cases globally each year, dengue …
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Mosquito Menace: Dengue Fever and Public Health in Singapore, 1965 – 2000
… worldwide recognition for its successful control of dengue through anti-mosquito campaigns and environmental measures. However, annual epidemics returned after 1985, prompting a serious re-evaluation of the dengue control program in the 1990s. Today, epidemics remain a problem in …
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The early zygotic genes and microRNAs in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti and the Asian malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi
Mosquitoes are notorious vectors for multiple diseases like malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever. To manipulate gene expression in mosquito and spread desired genes among natural population for vector control, a thorough understanding of mosquito development and gene regulation is critical. Early …
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Modeling Habitat and Environmental Factors Affecting Mosquito Abundance in Chesapeake, Virginia
… in this dissertation were designed to enable mosquito control agencies in the mid-Atlantic region that oversee large jurisdictions to rapidly track the spatial and temporal distributions of mosquito species, especially those species known to be vectors of eastern equine encephalitis and West …
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An integrated mosquito management program for James City County, Virginia
Twenty-six of the 49 mosquito species reported from Virginia were collected in James City County, Virginia during 1985 and 1986. The most abundant species were Psorophora columbiae, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, and Culex species. P. columbiae accounted for 50% and 16% of the light trap collections in …
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Bloodmeal analysis of urban Western Australian mosquito species for improved public health outcomes
… involved the capture and analysis of bloodfed mosquitoes within metropolitan Perth to determine their bloodmeal source. Mosquitoes were captured by a combination of sampling methods using carbon dioxide baited light traps, completed by local governments as a part of their standard mosquito …
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Effects of habitat and plant volatiles on mosquito spatial, seasonal, and chemical ecology
Mosquitoes, by transmitting vector-borne diseases through their saliva, impact nearly half of the world's population. Mosquito survival is dependent on their sense of smell, or olfaction, which allows a mosquito to differentiate between plant nectar, required for metabolic processes, and host …
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Exploring Mosquito Thermal Biology and Chemical Ecology in the Context of Host-Seeking and Climate Change
Mosquitoes are a significant global public health threat, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives annually due to the various pathogens they transmit, which result in diseases including dengue, malaria, and Zika. While various strategies and practices are in place to manage mosquito populations, …
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Ecological effects of ditching and ditch-plugging in New England salt marshes
… used for salt marsh habitat enhancement and mosquito control, but the long-term effects from this management practice are also unclear. I used natural tidal creeks and pools as controls to examine the effects resulting from ditching and plugging, respectively, on hydrology, soil …
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Battle of the Viruses: Aripo Virus Induced Superinfection Exclusion of Mosquito-borne Viruses
… vectors, the most common vector being the mosquito. Currently, many mosquito control strategies are in use, these control strategies are diverse in both efficiency and cost. However, developing new vector control strategies is becoming increasingly important, due to climate changing …
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Salinity Responsiveness of Aquaporins in Osmoregulatory Organs of Larval Mosquito Aedes Aegypti
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes harbour and transmit arboviral diseases such as chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever, and Zika. The aquatic larvae typically reside in freshwater environments that impose an osmotic challenge of water accumulation in their hemolymph across larval surfaces. Natural phenomena …
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Cross-reactivity among alphaviruses provides insight into viral emergence and novel defense strategies
… to the Togaviridae family that are maintained by mosquito vectors. These zoonotic viruses are clustered into two groups: New World and Old World, depending on their geographical origin/distribution and clinical manifestations. Both of these groups cause disease symptoms of an acute febrile …
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Eco-epidemiology of West Nile virus in the midwestern United States
… period for any pathogen they transmit. Mosquitoes are among the most responsive to climatic changes, and several species are considered the most successful invasive organisms on our planet. In 1999, West Nile virus (WNV) arrived in New York City and caused a local outbreak affecting …
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