Sentences with phrase «infected mosquito»

Cats become infected the same way as dogs, by being bitten by infected mosquitoes.

But you can take it as some sort of insurance against infections borne out of infected mosquito bite.

But none of them took place in areas where a person receives hundreds of bites from infected mosquitoes each year.

This fatal disease is spread through infected mosquitoes and causes damage to the heart and lungs.

Studies are also needed to determine how many infected mosquitoes need to be released in the field to get results fast enough.

They hope their findings will help scientists build better traps in the wild that will draw only infected mosquitoes.

In addition, increased exposure due to the presence of more mosquitoes OR more heavily infected mosquitoes may be involved.

A single bite from a single infected mosquito can cause an otherwise healthy dog to develop heartworm disease and potentially die.

Spread by infected mosquitoes, heartworm is increasingly being recognized as an underlying cause of health problems in domestic cats.

Although cats do not normally host heartworms, they can become infected in the same way as dogs, that is, through the bites of infected mosquitoes.

Dogs can only get heartworm disease through infected mosquitoes.

If a pet is bitten by an unusually high number of infected mosquitoes in a single season, enough heartworms can develop to suddenly plug up the the large vein that returns blood to the heart.

So they repeated their experiments, but this time they started by infecting the mosquitoes with the Reunion strain.

WNV is transmitted to humans via infected mosquito bites.

Google's life sciences unit is releasing 20 million machine - reared, bacteria - infected mosquitoes into Fresno.

«We're trying to learn, when the virus infects the mosquito, if it increases the presence of the metabolite, and whether we could exhaust that resource or increase the harmfulness of the resource so that the virus can't be passed on to another animal or human,» said Chotiwan.

The Florida trial is the latest in worldwide tests of two conceptually opposite approaches to using Wolbachia - infected mosquitoes as disease control officers.

For example, malaria - infected mosquitoes take larger blood meals than uninfected ones, and will take multiple blood meals.

But as some American travelers head to those areas and contract the disease, it's possible that they could infect mosquitoes who bite them back at home when they have high levels of virus in their blood, Dr. Marty says.

These microfilariae have the ability to infect mosquitoes which feed on the infected dog.

Xi's group also fed infected mosquitoes malaria parasites to test whether Wolbachia could block their life cycle inside the mosquito's body.

They showed that Wolbachia - infected mosquitoes didn't become totally resistant to malaria, as hoped.

Monkeys who catch Zika virus through bites from infected mosquitoes develop infections that look like human Zika cases, and may help researchers understand the many ways Zika can be transmitted.

Susan Donelan, assistant professor of epidemiology at Stony Brook University, says she's not worried about infected mosquitoes making their way up from South America, but of people who have been bitten and carrying Zika making their way back to the area.

Fertilization between male and female parasites in the mosquito midgut (see paragraph on the malaria cycle) did occur, but shortly afterwards, this new generation died without infecting the mosquito.»

Researchers at Colorado State University infected mosquitoes in the lab with multiple kinds of viruses to learn more about the transmission of more than one infection from a single mosquito bite.

The CSU team infected mosquitoes in the lab with multiple kinds of viruses to learn more about the transmission of more than one infection from a single mosquito bite.

The scientists, who will work collaboratively with Rothamsted Research, Wageningen University and Radboud University, hope their research will enable the identification of the chemical compounds in human odour to which mosquitoes are attracted and to determine whether infected mosquitoes respond differently to those compounds.

Significantly, the results could help identify new compounds which could be used to develop improved mosquito traps that could specifically target malaria - infected mosquitoes before they have the chance to pass on the parasite to the people they bite.

A case was confirmed in Puerto Rico in December in an individual who had not recently travelled, meaning he or she was bitten by a local infected mosquito.

Only last week, a team in Rio de Janeiro announced that they had nabbed several Aedes aegypti infected with Zika — the first infected mosquitoes found in Brazil.

The team also found that West Nile virus enhancement in the Wolbachia - infected mosquitoes occurred in conjunction with the suppression of genes associated with the mosquitoes» anti-viral immune response.

Scientists estimate that if Wolbachia - infected mosquitoes reach 80 percent, they could eliminate cases of dengue fever on the island.

«It could be that infected mosquitoes change their peak of activity to when humans are more available.»

A landmark came in a 2005 Science paper, in which Xi Zhiyong, then at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues infected a mosquito species called Aedes aegypti, which is the main carrier for dengue fever, a debilitating viral disease that causes intense muscle and joint pains.

Infected mosquitoes need access to unprotected pets.

Remarkably, investigators at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC) in The Netherlands have shown that long - term sterile immunity (at least 28 months) to experimental P. falciparum - infection can be induced by exposing malaria - naïve volunteers to the bites of 15 P. falciparum - infected mosquitoes monthly for three months while on chloroquine prophylaxis (CPS immunization).

«The truth is that it's nearly impossible to predict when the last infected mosquito in the house or outdoor environment will die in the fall or reappear in the spring, making heartworm an actual threat all year long.»

Rubin explains, adding that warm - weather locales face the threat of infected mosquitoes throughout the year.

Capelli et al., Risk of canine and human exposure to Dirofilaria immitis infected mosquitoes in endemic areas of Italy.

And we have data to suggest that dogs, if in fact they're around dogs that are infected with heartworm, are more likely to see infected mosquitoes than dogs that are not around dogs that are infected with heartworm.

The goal is to intervene at two different stages — first, to help prevent mosquitoes from feeding on microfilaremic dogs and wild canids, and second, to prevent infected mosquitoes from biting dogs, cats or ferrets and transmitting infective larvae.

When another, uninfected dog is bitten by that same infected mosquito, larvae are transmitted to the dog through the mosquito bite wound itself.

Potted plants are a prime breeding ground for heartworm and West Nile infected mosquitoes hatch in only a few drops of water.

Mosquitos Infected mosquitos can infect our pets with Heartworm Disease.

In May in Nature, Shi and colleagues described a different mutation that allows the virus to infect mosquitoes more effectively.

Heartworms are transmitted by infected mosquitoes and they live in the bloodstream, lungs and heart of infected pets.