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The detection of insecticide resistance in natural populations of Anopheles vectors is absolutely necessary for malaria control. In the African region, the ... technique in the assessment of insecticide resistanc...
Fungal biopesticides have the potential to significantly reduce densities of malaria vectors as well as associated malaria transmission. In previous field trials, entomopathogenic...Metarhizium anisopliae...IP 46...
The study of vector feeding behaviour is an important step in the understanding of the epidemiology of vector borne diseases. The main objective of this work was to study the spatio-temporal host preferences and ...
Routine molecular surveillance for imported drug-resistant malaria parasites to the USA and European Union ... guidelines up to date for persons traveling to malaria endemic countries. Recent advances in next-gen...
Anopheles cracens...has been incriminated as a vector for the simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, that is the fifth Plasmodium species infecting humans. Little experimental data exists on this mosquito ...
Owing to pyrethroid resistance in An. gambiae, the carbamate and organophosphate insecticides are currently regarded as alternatives or supplements to pyrethroids for use on mosquito net treatments. Resistance mo...
Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii is a primary vector of Plasmodium parasites in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Adult females of An. cruzii and An. homunculus, which is a secondary malaria vector, are morphologically simil...
Malaria is an important public health problem in...
Local strains of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium pingshaense...in Burkina Faso have demonstrated remarkable virulence against malaria vectors, positioning them as promising candidates for inclusion in the...
Anopheles sacharovi, a member of the Anopheles maculipennis complex, was a historical malaria vector in Italy, no longer found since...An. maculipennis sensu lato collected in Lecce municipality (Apulia region) w...
Insecticide treated plastic sheeting (ITPS), sometimes known as durable lining..., has potential as a long-lasting insecticidal surface for malaria vector control when used as lining for...
Malaria in South Africa is primarily transmitted by Anopheles funestus Giles. Resistance to pyrethroid insecticides in An. funestus...in northern Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa, and in neighbouring areas of southern...
Malaria remains a significant health problem in Yemen...Plasmodium falciparum...being the predominant species which is responsible for 90% of the malaria cases. Despite serious concerns regarding increasing drug ...
Odour baited resting boxes are simple, reliable and important tools for sampling malaria vector mosquitoes in surveillance and control programmes...An. arabiensis, a community-based study was conducted in Mabogin...
Urban agricultural practices are expanding in several cities of the Republic of Benin. This study aims to assess the impact of such practices on transmission of the malaria parasite in major cities of Benin.
A descriptive study was carried out in an area of the Atlantic Forest with autochthonous malaria in the Parelheiros subdistrict on the periphery...Plasmodium as well as to discuss their role in this peculiar epid...
Essential oils are currently studied for the control of different disease vectors, because of their efficacy on targeted organisms. In the present investigation, the larvicidal potential of essential oil extra...
Estimating human exposure to mosquito vectors is crucial for the prediction of malaria transmission and intervention impact. The human landing...
Chromosomal inversions have been considered to be potentially important barriers to gene flow in many groups of animals through their effect on recombination suppression in heterokaryotypic individuals. Invers...
Anopheles funestus s.s., one of the major malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa, belongs to ... stage, most of which do not transmit malaria. The population structure of An. funestus based on mitochondrial DNA da...
The results presented here suggest that sterilising adult malaria vectors using PPF could form part of a malaria control strategy, taking advantage of the lack...
The National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) has been using ... with a significant decrease of entomological indicators of malaria transmission in the treated districts. We present the results of the entomological...
Changes in host phenotype following parasite infection are often considered as host manipulation when they seem advantageous for the parasite. However, putative cases of host manipulation by parasites are rare...
Anopheles sinensis is a dominant vector for malaria transmission in Asian countries. Voltage-gated sodium...kdr) has developed in many A. sinensis populations because of intensive and long-term use of pyrethroids...
Chhattisgarh state in central India is highly endemic for malaria and contributes about 13% of annually reported malaria cases in the country with predominance of P. falciparum. Entomological investigations were ...
Malaria vector control programmes that rely on insecticide- ... realising the value to staff productivity of controlling malaria transmission in their areas of operation.
Chloroquine is an anti-malarial drug being used to treat Plasmodium vivax malaria cases in Ethiopia. However, emergence of...P. vivax strains in one of the malaria endemic areas of Ethiopia, namely Halaba distric...
Anopheles albimanus is a key malaria vector in the northern neotropics. Current vector...kdr region of the voltage-gated sodium channel gene in An. albimanus and to conduct a preliminary retrospective analysis of...
The African malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae s.s., is known to feed selectively on certain plants for sugar sources. However, the adaptive significance of this behaviour especially on how the extracts of such pl...
Insecticide treatment of nets, curtains or walls and ceilings of houses represent the primary means for malaria prevention worldwide. Direct personal protection of individuals...
Development of large scale agro-industries are subject to serious environmental modifications. In malaria endemic areas this would greatly impact on...Anopheles fauna and their entomological inoculation rates wer...
An epitope, Galα1-3Galβ1-4GlcNAc-R, termed α-gal, is present in glycoconjugates of New World monkeys (platyrrhines) and other mammals but not in hominoids and Old World monkeys (catarrhines). The difference is...
In no-choice situations, females of the mosquito Anopheles coluzzii, one of the primary African malaria vectors, were first allowed to feed on...
Anopheles sinensis is one of the most important malaria vectors in Asian countries. The rapid spread...An. sinensis...to further understand the insecticide resistance mechanisms in this species to facilitate gene...
Recent studies point to the need to incorporate the detection of non-falciparum species into malaria surveillance activities in sub-Saharan Africa, where 95% of the world’s malaria cases occur. Although malaria c...
Indoor residual spraying (IRS) was implemented in the department of Ouémé-Plateau, southern Benin, in 2008 and withdrawn in 2011, when long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) were distributed to the communities th...
The larvicidal efficacy of the naturally derived insecticide spinosad, for control of immature stages of Anopheles albimanus and associated culicids, was compared to that of synthetic and biological larvicides. E...
While transmission of the human Plasmodium species has declined, a significant increase in Plasmodium knowlesi/Plasmodium malariae...cases was reported in Hulu Selangor, Selangor, Malaysia. Thus, a study was unde...
Malaria is endemic in Senegal, with seasonal transmission ... is at risk. In recent years, high malaria incidence has been reported in urban and ... was conducted in three cities to identify the malaria transmiss...
It is concluded that the presence of a perennial and isolated population of An. arabiensis...at Malahlapanga presents a unique opportunity for assessing the feasibility of SIT as a malaria vector control option. ...
Malaria is endemic with year-round transmission on Bioko Island. The Bioko Island Malaria Control Project (BIMCP) started in 2004 with the aim to reduce malaria transmission and to ultimately eliminate malaria. W...
In Sub Saharan Africa malaria remains one of the major health problems ... represents an important public health measure. Integrated malaria control comprises the use of impregnated mosquito ... can create additi...
Anopheles mosquitoes are the vectors of malaria, one of the most important infectious diseases...Anopheles species have been described worldwide, and more than 30 are considered a public health problem. In Hondur...
The relationship between climatic factors and mosquito abundance is very important to determine parasite activity levels and, therefore, disease risk. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the season...
Plasmodium vivax malaria, with the widest geographic distribution, can...P. vivax malaria is chloroquine plus primaquine for 14 days...P. vivax infections compared to those with CQPQ14.
The great diversity of bat haemosporidians is being uncovered with the help of molecular tools. Yet most of these studies provide only snapshots in time of the parasites discovered. Polychromophilus murinus, a malaria
The scaling up of malaria vector control efforts in Africa has resulted in changing the malaria vectorial systems across different ecological settings. In ... to understand vector distribution and their contribut...
Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) could accelerate malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion. This...Anopheles in Surat Thani province, Thailand.
Brazil has the fourth highest prevalence of malaria of all countries in the Americas, with...Anopheles aquasalis and An. albitarsis...are the mosquito species of greatest epidemiological interest. In 2019, the mu...
Migratory birds play an important part in the spread of parasites, with more or less impact on resident birds. Previous studies focus on the prevalence of parasites, but changes in infection intensity over tim...
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