Alphavirus Transducing System: Tools for Visualizing Infection in Mosquito Vectors

Chikungunya Fever and Viral Infection in Mosquito Vectors

We investigated chikungunya fever outbreak in the southern part of Thailand. Human plasma specimens obtained from suspected patients and adult wildcaught mosquitoes were detected for chikungunya virus employing reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique. Chikungunya virus was detected in about half of the blood specimens whereas a range of 5.5 to 100% relative infection rate was ...

MIRO and IRbase: IT Tools for the Epidemiological Monitoring of Insecticide Resistance in Mosquito Disease Vectors

BACKGROUND Monitoring of insect vector populations with respect to their susceptibility to one or more insecticides is a crucial element of the strategies used for the control of arthropod-borne diseases. This management task can nowadays be achieved more efficiently when assisted by IT (Information Technology) tools, ranging from modern integrated databases to GIS (Geographic Information Syste...

Novel developments for applications of alphavirus vectors in gene therapy

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Correspondence: Kenneth Lundstrom, Ph.D. Tel: 41-61-687 8653, Fax: 41-61-688 4575, E-mail: [email protected]

Transfected Mosquito Vectors

Visualizing Bags of Vectors

The motivation of this paper is two-fold a) to compare between two different modes of visualizing data that exists in a bag of vectors format b) to propose a theoretical model that supports a new mode of visualizing data. Visualizing high dimensional data can be achieved using Minimum Volume Embedding, but the data has to exist in a format suitable for computing similarities while preserving lo...