The SolarMal Project: innovative mosquito trapping technology for malaria control

Gal4-based Enhancer-Trapping in the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles stephensi

Transposon-based forward and reverse genetic technologies will contribute greatly to ongoing efforts to study mosquito functional genomics. A piggyBac transposon-based enhancer-trap system was developed that functions efficiently in the human malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi. The system consists of six transgenic lines of Anopheles stephensi, each with a single piggyBac-Gal4 element in a uni...

Mass mosquito trapping for malaria control in western Kenya: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster-randomised trial

BACKGROUND Increasing levels of insecticide resistance as well as outdoor, residual transmission of malaria threaten the efficacy of existing vector control tools used against malaria mosquitoes. The development of odour-baited mosquito traps has led to the possibility of controlling malaria through mass trapping of malaria vectors. Through daily removal trapping against a background of continu...

Traps and trapping techniques for adult mosquito control.

An overview is presented of the recent advancements in research activities conducted to evaluate mosquito traps, insecticide-impregnated targets baited with combinations of attractants, and strategies for using mass trapping techniques for adult mosquito population management. Technologies that use semiochemicals (attractants), traps and targets, and mass trapping are relatively new for managem...

Malaria Control by Anti-Mosquito Measures

The mosquito-malaria theory.