Sentences with phrase «for vector control»
It budgeted nearly $ 150 million in 2007 alone on its campaign to ban DDT production and use — but spent a lousy $ 22 million researching alternatives to DDT for vector control.
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This last approach has been applied successfully in Mexico, which no longer uses DDT for vector control.
Marcia Castro's research focuses on infectious diseases (particularly mosquito borne), environmental change and health, environmental management for vector control, spatial patterns of disease transmission, and infant & child mortality.
Not exact matches
In response to concerns from constituents and neighborhoods throughout Erie County, Legislator Kevin Hardwick, R - Tonawanda, suspended in a resolution Thursday from the County Executive's Office designating $ 70,000 for rat and vector control.
Republican Congressman Chris Gibson's bipartisan legislation requires the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control to audit available research on vector - borne diseases like Lyme disease.
Funding for the Vector and Pest Control Program, which included rodent baiting and trapping on private property, was eliminated by former - County Executive Chris Collins in the 2011 Budget.
Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.
«We've been seeing growing evidence of the association between Zika and congenital central nervous system malformations, not just microcephaly, since the first cases were picked up,» says Wim Van Bortel, senior expert on vector - borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Solna, Sweden.
«This response has been the most complex outbreak response for CDC,» said Ben Beard, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, in an email.
In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.
Continued support for the development of other novel strategies including drugs, improved case management, insecticides, and new approaches to vector control, is needed before effective dengue control becomes a credible prospect.
CARMICHAEL REPLIES: Vaccinating animals is an intriguing idea and one that is clearly more applicable for vector - borne diseases with nonhuman reservoirs (for example, vaccinating dogs to control both canine and human visceral leishmaniasis transmission).
While certainly not a panacea for mosquito - borne disease, this research does suggest new directions for controlling these important disease vectors, especially in places where introduced species are utilized heavily.
«Anywhere with these vectors — Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to some degree Aedes albopictus — could get this virus and have local transmission,» says Erin Staples, a medical epidemiologist and expert in mosquito - borne diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dengue Branch, Division of Vector - Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan 00971, Puerto Rico.
They directly injected into the cerebrospinal fluid of a mouse model of Alzheimer's — adult animals in which plaques were well established — viral vectors carrying genes for one of the three APOE variants or a control protein.
But immunologist Nordin Zeidner, chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vector - Host Laboratory in Fort Collins, Colorado, had doubts, and after retesting the technique found a success rate of just 20 to 30 percent in mice.
Mosquitoes (Anopheles funestus) are vectors of malaria, and most strategies for combating the spread of the disease focus on control of mosquito populations using insecticides.
«Moreover, the defensive lessons learned now combined with ongoing research in flaviviral immunology and genetic mosquito vector control will better prepare us for the next arthropod - borne pandemic in our changing world ecosystem.»
Standard control measures were implemented for one year (i.e. Active case detection, intensifies vector control), after which a program of mass drug administration (MDA) was implemented to provide the entire local immigrant population with a curative course of antimalarial drugs.
A field worker in a vector control district collects and prepares mosquito samples, which are then sent to a lab for testing using sophisticated PCR techniques.
It opens the way for new prospects for controlling this vector.
PORTLAND, OREGON — Humans may be important vectors for sudden oak death, according to new research, raising concerns that the disease ravaging California's oak woodlands may be difficult to control.
Therefore, vector control is currently the only means of breaking the transmission cycle for the disease.
Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.
That knowledge, combined with earlier research by Rey and others, could hint at novel ways to block the virus from infecting cells, says virologist John Roehrig of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Vector - Borne Diseases in Fort Collins, Colorado.
PAHO / WHO has been working with member countries for a number of years on vector control and in the coming weeks will convene experts from throughout the Americas to discuss new, more effective and integrated mosquito control strategies that would help reduce not only Zika infections but also cases of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and West Nile virus — all of which are spread by mosquitoes and are significant public health problems in the Americas.
DNA from the individual VHH that neutralized any tier 2/3 viruses to < 20 % seen with control was purified, sequenced, and recloned into the pCAD51 expression vector followed by transformation into TG1 cells for purification and further characterization.
The ZFNs targeting either the cxcr4 or ccr5 genes were linked via a 2A peptide sequence and cloned into the pAdEasy - 1 / F35 vector under control of the CMV TetO promoter, and the Ad5 / F35 virus for each construct was generated using TREx 293T cells as described [33].
The use of viral vectors in research is beneficial for a number of reasons, including but not limited to: helping to get difficult - to - deliver DNA into mammalian cells, increasing the efficiency of gene transduction, allowing for control over which cells are infected through viral pseudotyping, and ease of vector cloning and modification.
«The significance of controlled conditions in lentiviral vector titration and in the use of multiplicity of infection (MOI) for predicting gene transfer events.»
Dr Ho works in NIBSC since 1998 and leads R&D and standardisation projects collaborating with vaccine manufacturers in laboratory evaluation of product characterisation and quality control assays for novel bacterial vaccines, including protein subunit, polysaccharide - protein conjugates, viral vector and live bacterial vaccines.
Histopathology scores were high for the N containing vector group and low for the S containing group and for the vehicle control group.
In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»
Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector - Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
HV cells overexpressing Nanog were generated by electroporation with a vector containing the Nanog cDNA under the control of a CAG promoter and upstream of IRES Puro cassette followed by selection in puromycin (2 µg / ml) for 2 wk.
Ron is currently collaborating with Auburn University to complete trials of recombinant and chromosomal options for producing «daughterless» carp, consulting on the risks involved in using genetic methods for managing disease - vectoring mosquitoes, exploring options for applying genetic techniques to the control of other invasive fish, and writing papers on deep - sea ecology, climate change and the taxonomy of Tasmanian mayflies.
These data alone should not be used as the basis for any policy change in vector control interventions.
On the Addgene website you'll find our updated viral vector pages as well as expanded virus protocols, information on how we produce and test virus, and quality control data for each of the materials we distribute.
That's one reason I took notice of this week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about vector - borne illnesses, a.k.a. diseases spread by insects like ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes.
With the parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector, the predictive effects for college attendance based on the college attendance of other classes are and.
Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.
With an electric motor for each wheel, the HK GT can deploy dynamic torque vectoring, with each unit getting its own control unit.
Among the goodies Porsche still charges extra for are the paddleshift steering wheel, the highly desirable dual - clutch transmission, carbon - ceramic brakes, cruise control, a sunroof, electronic torque vectoring in conjunction with a passive limited - slip differential, and the indispensable Sport Chrono package, which includes active engine mounts and an overboost function.
The best racetrack mix is the differential in «auto minus» for smooth roads; the throttle left in «intelligent» mode, allowing the least jerky modulation of the accelerator; and the traction / stability control in track mode, which allows plenty of yaw and still gives you active torque vectoring.
The handling feels tight, with compliance generous enough to allow significant roll in the corners, but also with very little understeer and a willingness to rotate until the vehicle dynamic control / torque vectoring (for which we found no defeat switch) catches it.
The sporty tune used for the Macan GTS» stability control system allows for almost double the yaw, and the must - have torque - vectoring option selectively delivers torque between the rear wheels.
It has all - wheel - drive with torque - vectoring, and puts its power through an eight - speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters for its only forward - gear controls.
Earlier for the 2017 model year, the Mazda6 received G - Vectoring Control and other features, after just having been refreshed for the 2016 model year.
Three driving modes are offered: Normal, Dynamic and Track, the latter a first for an XE and you'll notice eco is now missing... Switching between settings adjusts the dampers, steering, throttle, torque vectoring, the four - drive drive system and the stability control responses accordingly.