There is a lack of data on the Anopheles fauna, its biology and the roles played by different vector species in the transmission of malaria in the mount Cameroon region. The biting habits, feeding behaviour and entomological inoculation rates of different Anopheles species during the dry and rainy season were investigated. A total of 2165 Anopheles was collected, 805 in the rainy season and 136...

BACKGROUND All vectors of human malaria, a disease responsible for more than one million deaths per year, are female mosquitoes from the genus Anopheles. Evarcha culicivora is an East African jumping spider (Salticidae) that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by selecting blood-carrying female mosquitoes as preferred prey. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS By testing with motionless lures made...

glutathione s-transferases (gsts) are a major family of detoxification enzymes which possess a wide range of substrate specificities. interest in insect gsts has primarily focused on their role in insecticide resistance. in this study, following world health organization (who) routine susceptibility test, dna was extracted from specimens of anopheles stephensi collected from the kazeroon distri...

One Welfare in Practice: The Role of the Veterinarian - Edited by T Stephens (2021). Published CRC Press, Park Square, Milton Park, Abington, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK. 371 pages Paperback (ISBN: 9780367904067). Price: £42.99. Volume 32

Photo 1. We focused our study on three species of small mammals known to consume fungi a regular basis. Eastern chipmunks (top left panel: Tamias striatus), southern red-backed voles right Myodes gapperi), and woodland jumping mice (bottom Napaeozapus insignis) consumed slightly different fungal communities. All were heavy consumers mycorrhizal species, such as this bolete panel) which contains...

Two new mosquito species belonging to the Hyrcanus Group, Anopheles (Anopheles) belenrae Rueda and An. (Ano.) kleini Rueda, are described from the Republic of South Korea, with illustrations of the larvae, pupae, adults, and male genitalia.

Two k-sample versions of the Anderson-Darling (AD) test of fit are proposed and their asymptotic null distributions are derived for the continuous as well as the discrete case. In the continuous case the asymptotic distributions coincide with the (k − 1)-fold convolution of the 1-sample AD asymptotic distribution. Monte Carlo simulation is used to investigate the null distribution small sample ...

receptor positive but require RANKL for bone resorption. Michael S. Kim, Chris J. Day, Christina I. Selinger, Carly L. Magno, Sebastien J.R. Stephens and Nigel A. Morrison*. From the School of Medical Science, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, 4215, Australia. Running Title: MCP-1 mediated TRAP+ multinuclear cells. Address correspondence to: Nigel A. Morrison, School of Medical...

A total of 460 Anopheles funestus s.l. was collected inside human dwellings in Mwea, central Kenya. Of the 414 specimens that were positively identified, 1 was Anopheles leesoni and the others were Anopheles parensis. None of the 373 specimens tested were positive for Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium malariae sporozoites by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Of the 139 ELISA blood-me...

The two main surgical procedures for high and intermediate anorectal malformations (ARM), namely, Stephens’ and Peña’s procedure, are compared in terms of their outcome. Materials and Methods: Fifty-eight patients who had Stephens’ procedure and 28 patients who had posterior sagittal anorectoplasty (PSARP) are clinically analyzed in terms of associated anomalies, procedural complications, anato...