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Transmission of African Horse-Sickness by Means of Mosquito Bites and Replication of the Virus in Aedes aegypti

SIR Model

The diseases we are discussing have been classified as microparasitic. Examples of microparasitic diseases are chicken pox, measles, HIV/AIDS, influenza and tuberculosis. Diseases due to worms, for example, are called macroparasitic. Other than the size of the infecting agent, the main distinction is that the microparasites reproduce within their hosts and are transmitted directly from one host...

Basophil activation by mosquito extracts in patients with hypersensitivity to mosquito bites

Hypersensitivity to mosquito bites (HMB) is a cutaneous disorder belonging to the group of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoproliferative diseases, and is primarily mediated by EBV-infected NK cells. It is characterized by intense local skin reactions accompanied by general symptoms after mosquito bites, and infiltration of EBV-infected NK cells into the bite...

Gradual diffusive capture: slow death by many mosquito bites

We study the dynamics of a single diffusing particle (a ‘man’) with diffusivity DM that is attacked by another diffusing particle (a ‘mosquito’) with fixed diffusivity Dm. Each time the mosquito meets and bites the man, the diffusivity of the man is reduced by a fixed amount, while the diffusivity of the mosquito is unchanged. The mosquito is also displaced by a small distance ±a with respect t...

Plasmodium yoelii-Infected A. stephensi Inefficiently Transmit Malaria Compared to Intravenous Route

It was recently reported that when mosquitoes infected with P. berghei sporozoites feed on mice, they deposit approximately 100-300 sporozoites in the dermis. When we inoculate P. yoelii (Py) sporozoites intravenously (IV) into BALB/c mice, the 50% infectious dose (ID(50)) is often less than 3 sporozoites, indicating that essentially all Py sporozoites in salivary glands are infectious. Thus, i...