Sentences with phrase «time studying mosquitoes»

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The time necessary to harvest coffee puts women and children outside in the mornings and through the evenings during the rainy season when malaria - carrying mosquitos are most active, Austin wrote in her study.

A team of researchers from Simon Fraser University and Culex Environmental, a Burnaby - based mosquito control company, are studying an invasive, disease - carrying mosquito, Aedes japonicus, after finding it for the first time in Western Canada.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

Study lead author Mojca Kristan from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the first time that effects of pyrethroids on the parasite have been observed in a malaria endemic setting, with wild - caught mosquitoes and parasites.

This is the first time these pathways have been studied in live mosquitoes with dengue virus, although similar studies have been conducted under controlled conditions using cells cultured in the lab.

They performed this identification at two points of time to study any changes that may have occurred, using «CLIP - seq,» an experimentally challenging procedure that, to Karginov and his team's knowledge, has not been used on mosquito tissues before, and that provides a large trove of potential microRNA - mRNA interactions for further investigation.

The work by scientists from Colorado State University is one of several new Zika - related studies being presented at the world's largest gathering of tropical medicine experts, including probing the implications of having three mosquito - borne viruses — dengue, Zika and chikungunya — circulating in the Americas and parts of Asia at the same time.

«Mosquitoes could infect humans with Zika and chikungunya viruses at the same time: Second study links three mosquito - borne viruses — Zika, chikungunya and dengue — currently hitting Americas to severe neurological problems.»

She said the study also suggests that co-infection with chikungunya inhibits infection of Zika virus in the Aedes aegypti mosquito, meaning that one virus may outcompete another in mosquitoes, which could have an impact on the epidemiology of two mosquito - borne viruses circulating at the same time.

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.

Many studies say this requires a steady daily temperature of at least 64 °F, day and night for a month for this to happen, and if, at any time, the temperature drops below 57 °F, the maturation cycle will fail and the female mosquito can no longer transmit heartworm to dogs.

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.

Some studies have actually shown catnip to be several times more effective at repelling mosquitoes than DEET, a potentially dangerous chemical used in many bug repellents.