UNLABELLED Rapid identification of mosquito (vector) species is critical for vector control and disease management. Pictorial keys of mosquito species are currently used for the identification of new mosquito species. However, this approach is not very effective. Here, we describe the use of an ID3 algorithm (part of artificial intelligence) for the rapid identification of the South East Asian ...

Mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. Vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for Japanese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. There are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and West Nile virus infection. In this article...

This protocol describes mosquito rearing in the insectary. The insectary rooms are maintained at 28 degrees C and approximately 80% humidity, with a 12 hr. day/night cycle. For this procedure, you'll need mosquito cages, 10% sterile sucrose solution, paper towels, beaker, whatman filter paper, glass feeders, human blood and serum, water bath, parafilm, distilled water, clean plastic trays, mosq...

context arthropod-borne diseases are remaining as a major public health issue in the resource-constrained settings. mosquitoes are closely associated with mankind since time immemorial and play an important role in the transmission of many dreadful diseases like malaria, filariasis, japanese encephalitis, dengue and yellow fever. over the decades, vector control is an important element to minim...

in the previous studies by foreign investigators on culicinae fauna of iran two culiseta, cs. longiareolata and cs. annulata; one coguillettidia, cog. richiardii, and one uranotaenia species, ur. unguiculata have been reported. in the comprehensive study of the culicinae fauna of iran, made by the school of public health, teheran university, since 1980, not only all named species, except one, w...

background: many microorganisms in midgut of mosquito challenge with their host and also other pathogens pre­sent in midgut. the aim of this study was presence of non-pathogens microorganisms like fungal flora which may be cru­cial on interaction between vectors and pathogens. } methods: different populations of anopheles stephensi were reared in insectary and objected to determine fungal flora...

there is very little information about the mosquito fauna of mahshahr district. the present study gives an overview of data on the species composition and distribution of mosquitoes in the mahshahr district, khuzestan province, southwest of iran. in order to study the mosquito fauna, the samples were collected from may to november 2012 using dipping and total catch methods from seven village...

Domestic ducks were experimentally tried to see their effect in controlling mosquito vector and it was observed that ducks prefer mosquito larvae as their diet (JPMA 40 : 42, 1990).

■ Abstract The genetic background of individual mosquito species and populations within those species influences the transmission of mosquito-borne pathogens to humans. Technical advances in contemporary genomics are contributing significantly to the detailed genetic analysis of this mosquito-pathogen interaction as well as all other aspects of mosquito biology, ecology, and evolution. A variet...

The goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a public health educational campaign to reduce backyard mosquito-larval habitats. Three communities each, within two New Jersey counties, were randomly selected to receive: (1) both education and mosquito control, (2) education only, and (3) no education or mosquito control. Four separate educational events included a 5-day elementary ...