Controlling Dengue: An uphill task?

Controlling Dengue with Vaccines in Thailand

BACKGROUND Dengue is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that constitutes a growing global threat with the habitat expansion of its vectors Aedes aegyti and A. albopictus and increasing urbanization. With no effective treatment and limited success of vector control, dengue vaccines constitute the best control measure for the foreseeable future. With four interacting dengue serotypes, the develo...

Controlling Task Distribution in MONEE

The MONEE framework endows collective adaptive robotic systems with the ability to combine environmentand taskdriven selection pressures: it enables distributed online algorithms for learning behaviours that ensure both survival and accomplishment of user-defined tasks. This paper explores the trade-off that must be reached between these two (possibly contradictory) requirements, in the case wh...

Defeating dengue: a difficult task ahead.

An Imported Case of Dengue Fever in Iran, 2015

Background: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease which is not known to be endemic in Iran. Case Report: In October 2015, a 32-year-old Iranian woman was admitted with acute unexplained high-grade fever, headache, pain, rash, diarrhea, leukopenia and elevated liver enzymes after returning from India. Serological and molecular analysis for Dengue virus (DENV) infection revealed positive ...

Uphill/downhill nystagmus

Differential diagnosis between peripheral and central spontaneous nystagmus can be difficult to classify (as peripheral or central) even on the basis of criteria recommended in the recent literature. The aim of this paper is to use the combination of spontaneous nystagmus and ocular tilt reaction to determine the site of origin of the disease that causes nystagmus. We propose to classify the ny...