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Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne illness caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), is primarily transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes1. Initially detected in Tanzania in 1952, CHIKV has since spread to numerous countries, predominantly in Africa and Asia2. The virus was first ...
Virus_Genbank No: Describes the GenBank number of the respective mosquito-associated virus 7. Virus_family: Identifies the family-level taxonomy of the mosquito-associated virus 8. Virus_genus: Identifies the genus-level taxonomy of the mosquito-associated virus 9. Mosq_genus: Describes the ...
000 deaths in 2022 alone; over 95% of which occur in the African continent1. The most effective methods for controlling malaria are the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), and indoor residual spraying (IRS), which kill theAnophelesmosquito vector and hence prevents...
Don fil. (family Asteraceae) has been used for its medicinal properties for a long time and, even nowadays, continues to play an important role in the traditional medicine of Mediterranean countries. Based on this traditional knowledge, its different pharmacological activities have been the focus ...
In 2015, I started a project in collaboration with Dr. Sean Ekins, a pharmacologist with extensive research experience, to focus on the development of computational models to identify active compounds against the dengue virus, which is a serious mosquito-borne disease found throughout the world. ...
Hats off toWiredfor a clearexplanationof the pandemic’s terminology.Coronavirusrefers to a family of viruses;SARS-CoV-2is the name of the germ that causes the disease, andCovid-19is the disease itself. Coronaviruses are so-called because the germs that cause the disease latch onto cells in...
of protozoan infection. The most stably expressed genes are EF1-α for the kissing bugRhodnius prolixusinfected byTrypanosoma cruzi64and GAPDH and α-tubulin forTrypanosoma rangeliinfection65; EF1-α, actin 1, and 40 S ribosomal protein S7 for the mosquitoAnopheles dirusinfected byPlasmodium berghe...
Common misconceptions among defendants about HIV/AIDS were HIV transmission through hugging, sharing can seats, towels, utensils, shaking hands, and even mosquito bites. Out of a total of 95 nursing students who realized that AIDS could be avoided by changing their behavior, 60 percent of them ...
While WNV cannot be transmitted from horses to humans, humans are at risk of being infected with the virus if bitten by a carrier mosquito. Economic impact The economic impact of WNV can be significant. In addition to horses that may die as a result of WNV, the disease can also contr...