Sentences with phrase «vector species»

In red are counties that have one of the 2 Dengue mosquito vector species.

Changes in the geographical distribution of vector - borne diseases, as vector species that carry and transmit diseases migrate to more hospitable environments, will occur [medium confidence].

The Division will continue to handle rabies surveillance for Palm Beach County, which includes quarantine, testing, and response to rabies vector species and human or animal exposure.

Volunteers will not be working with any prevalent rabies vector species.

We accept a limited number of Rabies Vector Species including raccoons, groundhogs, foxes, skunk, and bats.

As a rabies vector species, domestic cats pose a threat to human health that can be addressed by responsible pet ownership.

«Managed feral cat colonies bring together all the elements necessary to create a perfect storm of risk: concentrated numbers of unvaccinated cats, wildlife vector species attracted to food sources provided for the cats, proximity to humans, and contact among all three of these groups.

Life Cycle: Mosquito vector species acquire the first stage larvae (microfilariae) while feeding on an infected host.

Terrestrial carnivores most often infected with rabies (known as vector species) in the US are skunks, raccoons, and foxes.

Which vector species is transmitting the disease?

Other vector species — C. declarator, A. aegypti, C. chidesteri, Limatus durhami and C. lygrus — were also found more frequently in the urban parks.

Scientists also showed that vector species make out for seven out of the eight most common species found in the research's general sampling.

«Disease - bearing mosquitoes gain from shrinkage of green spaces: Mosquitoes belonging to vector species make up for seven out of the eight most common species found in municipal parks.»

Not exact matches

Lane is searching for nymphal western blacklegged ticks (species name Ixodes pacificus), the prime vector for spreading Lyme disease out West.

Seven of those species occur in the continental U.S., with ranges that in some cases differ from those of the known vectors.

Notably, for biting flies (midges in the genus Culicoides, some species of which are vectors of wildlife disease), 80 percent were attracted to the filament lamp, 15 percent to the compact fluorescent and only 2 - 3 percent to each of the two different LED lamps.

Targeting Zika's potential vectors — species that can transmit the virus from one host to another — is an urgent need, given its explosive spread and the devastating health effects associated with it.

We see A. aegypti as the vector of human diseases, but the global ecological significance of the species is unknown.

Human health: Forest degradation and loss compromise the supply of medically - beneficial species that millions of people rely on; additionally, forest degradation drives the spread of many infectious diseases by bringing humans and disease vectors into close contact.

In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known primary vector, the yellow fever mosquito.

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.

According to Medeiros - Sousa, fragmentation and reduction of green areas benefit vector mosquitoes owing to extinction of wild species.

Smaller green areas tend to have a subset of the species found in larger green areas, and the range of species in smaller areas tends to comprise mainly vectors,» he said.

«Traces of Zika Found in Asian tiger mosquito in Brazil: Virus fragments detected in species other than Zika's known primary vector.»

Malaria is caused by a handful of species of parasites in the genus Plasmodium through the bite of mosquitos and remains a widespread vector - borne infectious disease, sickening almost half a billion people every year around the planet.

The Standard Model has 40 species of elementary particles (24 fermions, 12 vector bosons, and 4 scalars), which can combine to form composite particles, accounting for the hundreds of other species of particles discovered since the 1960s.

«It's more than a little depressing that after a century of work, we still seem not to know how many species there are in the funestus group, let alone how good each is at transmitting malaria,» adds evolutionary biologist Andrew Read of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who studies the evolutionary genetics of malaria and its vectors.

The high diversity of mosquitoes in central Panama where more than 250 species have been reported, may make it difficult to control incoming diseases by controlling the mosquito vectors.»

In southern Europe, bluetongue's main vector is a species called Culicoides imicola, which doesn't occur in the newly affected countries.

So far, the team has found predominantly C. obsoletus — which lab studies have shown to be a potential vector for bluetongue — as well as nine other Culicoides species, Takken says.

«Our goal is to understand how landscape features affect pollen and seed dispersal for plant species associated with different dispersal vectors,» says Cruzan.

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.

Co-author Cadhla Firth, a research scientist at Columbia University's Center for Infection and Immunity, and her colleagues used molecular screening methods to look for two other pathogenic bacteria the Oriental rat flea could vector: Rickettsia (which they didn't find) and several species of Bartonella.

The fact that some areas under consideration for restoration have lost all of some native coral species minimises concerns such as introducing disease vectors.

It brings insect vectors, antibiotic - treated livestock, semi-wild animals from many different forests, and a diverse, transient group of people together, generating a potent brew of genes, mixed among species.

Bed nets therefore remain one of the most cost - effective ways to reduce malaria transmission and are likely to be effective for vector - borne diseases caused by mosquito species that bite primarily at night.»

Aedes africanus, Aedes furcifer and Aedes luteocephalus species were the most infected vectors with 16 % positive (5/31 strains) each.

For double labeling, the cells were incubated with primary antibodies against TuJ1 and L1 or GFAP, then biotinylated anti-mouse or rabbit (rat) IgG (Vector, Burlingame, CA, USA), and finally with avidin - rhodamine (Vector) and corresponding FITC - conjugated secondary antibodies (from different host species, Chemicon and Molecular Probes, Invitrogen).

Possibilities for genomic treatment include re-introducing genetic variability, increasing a species» resistance to exotic diseases, and precisely targeted removal of harmful invasive species and of disease vectors.

Over the next few years genes from different bacterial (and eventually mammalian) species were cloned into plasmids and new cloning vectors such as pBR322, pACYC, and pUC were developed to provide higher copy number vectors that could be used in these cloning experiments.

We then derived a species turnover vector by differencing richness estimates from adjacent time periods.

Such tools have the potential to provide new solutions to some of the most intractable problems facing conservation: 1) exotic diseases of wildlife with known vectors, 2) exotic diseases with potential for genetic disease resistance, and 3) destructive invasive species.

One involves engineering reproductive isolation (speciation) between populations that can otherwise interbreed, so as to limit gene flow; a second involves creating genetic methods that can, reversibly, drive populations of invasive species and / or vectors of disease to local extinction; a third involves creating genetic methods that can drive — in ways that are easily reversible — the spread of beneficial genes into wild insect populations so as to prevent the spread of vector - borne disease.

Y chromosome function, structure and evolution is poorly understood in many species including the Anopheles genus of mosquitoes, an emerging model system for studying speciation that also represents the major vectors of malaria.

While this mosquito species is primarily know as a nuisance biter, various laboratory studies have shown A. notoscriptus to be a competent vector of Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus, which are well - known human pathogens.

Mosquitoes of several different species are the vectors (intermediate host for the developing microfilariae).

As examples, students» at all academic levels and from many national and international locations, have had the experience of working in a research laboratory or have participated in a focused research project related to vector borne infectious diseases of companion animals or wildlife species.

However, within the kidneys, of carrier species (vectors), these leptospira are hidden from the animal's antibodies and continue to live in the microscopic tubes that carry urine out to the bladder (the proximal renal tubules).

As cats are not the host species for any rabies strain, they are not a primary rabies vector.

Massachusetts in particular is a magnet and a distribution center for relocated surplus pets and strays... Some diseases and parasites pose serious health risks for human health as well as for dogs and other species... Dogs are a leading vector for rabies in many poor countries... Given the incubation period for rabies, from five days to several years, with 20 - 60 days being the norm, unquarantined importation of street dogs from poor countries with low rates of vaccination for rabies, is a disaster waiting to happen...»