Sentences with phrase «malaria vector»
While the main malaria vector in South Africa, Anopheles funestus, is susceptible to DDT, a secondary vector, A. arabiensis, has developed resistance to DDT and other insecticides.
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The prize we offered was won by an American entrepreneur, Tom Kruer, and his son Nathan, after they extensively investigated existing scientific literature regarding malaria vector mosquitoes.
He is inspired because his own group is trying to infect A. gambiae, the main malaria vector in Africa and an even more difficult target to infect.
Romi R, Pierdominici G, Severini C, Tambutto A, Cocchi M, Menichetti D, Pili E, Marchi A. (1997) Status of malaria vectors in Italy.
«I think the fossil evidence shows that modern malaria vectored by mosquitoes is at least 20 million years old, and earlier forms of the disease, carried by biting midges, are at least 100 million years old and probably much older.»
The mosquito species in question, Anopheles stephensi, is a key malaria vector in South Asia and the Middle East, and the study offers the tantalizing possibility of ridding entire cities such as New Delhi and Calcutta of malaria, says Willem Takken of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who was also not involved in the work.
«It's hard to argue that the presence of flowering mesquite trees are not a positive influence for important malaria vectors.»
Afolabi MO, Adetifa JU, Imoukhuede EB, Viebig NK, Kampmann B, Bojang K. Earlyphase clinical trials with human immunodeficiency virus - 1 and malaria vectored vaccines in The Gambia: frontline challenges in study design and implementation.
«We hope that these data will allow the Anopheles research community to understand the evolutionary processes that make Anopheles gambiae such a formidable malaria vector.»
Anopheles gambiae is the principal malaria vector.
A cluster randomized trial was conducted in Sudan with pyrethroid - resistant and carbamate - susceptible malaria vectors.
The evolution of insecticide - avoidance behaviour can be used to generate new spatial repellents to keep malaria vectors out of homes.
gambiae during the 1st period, the results did not reveal any statistical association between mean trend in monthly rainfall and declining malaria vector populations.
Researchers from LSTM, with partners from a number of international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector.
Knols is an admirer of Fred Soper, a legendary U.S. scientist at The Rockefeller Foundation who in the late 1930s helped Brazil get rid of a massive infestation of Anopheles gambiae, Africa's main malaria vector.
Highly efficient Cas9 - mediated gene drive for population modification of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi.
«Malaria - control resources are limited, and it would be a waste of money to kill off a mosquito species that may look exactly like a malaria vector but is not,» she says.
«If this mosquito is not a malaria vector, it is certainly a «confuser» — looking exactly like one of the major vectors,» says medical entomologist Richard Hunt, a member of the team that reports its finding this month in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
«Insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector.»
April 20, 2018 - Researchers from LSTM, with partners from a number of international institutions, have shown the rapid selection of a novel P450 enzyme leading to insecticide resistance in a major malaria vector.