Sentences with phrase «mosquito feeding study»
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The green groups obtained a study showing that 15 percent of the offspring of lab - bred GM mosquitoes survived when fed on cat food which contains low levels of tetracycline.
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Complicating study of the virus even further, a lab study found that an infected mosquito can pass the virus to nearby mosquitoes while they are feeding on an uninfected animal.
In research funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists and doctors at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed on them.
A new study in Burkina Faso suggests that mass - administering ivermectin to people may kill or weaken the mosquitoes feeding on them, and thus make a dent in malaria transmission.
«We suspect bacteria quickly colonize the waterborne debris, and mosquito larvae feed on the bacteria,» said Illinois entomology professor Brian Allan, a co-author on the study with Mackay, Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Ephantus Muturi and U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences professor Michael Ward.
Despite the propensity for the mosquitos to bite non-human vertebrates, the study revealed that local virus transmission and human outbreaks might occur when the mosquitos feed from humans even just 40 % of the time.
The green groups obtained a study showing that 15 % of the offspring of lab - bred GM mosquitoes survived when fed on cat food which contains low levels of tetracycline.
But the study fails to take into account that a mosquitoes that transfers heartworms to your pet feed several times - on livestock or other dogs that may have ivermectin in their systems.
The research study by Dr. McCall shows that the efficacy of Vectra ® 3D in preventing mosquitoes from feeding on dogs and in turn spreading heartworm microfilariae and larvae is an effective approach to stopping the spread of heartworm from dogs to mosquitoes.