mosquito-borne disease

A brain area of Aedes aegypti responds specifically to components of human sebum, a study finds.

Southern Australia has recorded its first-ever cases of the disease in an outbreak that has so far killed three people.

Pregnant mosquito females deploy the microbe Elizabethkingia to speed larval growth; the larvae, in turn, help the bacteria outcompete other strains.

Mosquitoes avoid pesticides that they’ve had close encounters with, a fact that may complicate pest management.

Warmer temperatures are likely to increase the prevalence of the mosquito-borne disease in many places, but not all.

Randomized, controlled research conducted in an Indonesian city confirms the reduction in cases seen with previous observational work.

The Centenary University professor studies the far-reaching effects of changes in the gut bacteria of mosquitos and other species.

In both Drosophila and mosquitoes, protection lasts for generations following a single maternal exposure to positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses.

A study explains how Zika was present among mosquitoes in Africa for decades without causing the harm to human health seen outside the continent in recent years.

Cases of dengue were greatly reduced in areas of a city where Wolbachia-infected mosquitos were released, according to preliminary data from a field study.

Unable to travel to international or remote sites, some researchers are losing critical data.

Engineered Plasmodium parasites form the basis of two experimental malaria vaccines that showed safety and encouraging immune responses in clinical trials.

Aedes aegypti infected with Wolbachia—which inhibit transmission of the dengue virus from insect to human—were deployed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Australia.

Researchers use two techniques—Wolbachia infection and irradiation—to suppress reproduction in populations of Asian tiger mosquitoes at two study sites in China.

Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.

The parasite that causes malaria has evolved to evade many of the drugs that researchers have developed to fight the tropical disease.

Plasmodium falciparum has shown an ability to evade everything we throw at it, most recently artemisinin-based combination therapies, today’s front-line treatment.

No females were produced after eight generations, causing the population to collapse.