The Ecology of Mosquito Borne Viruses

The ecology of mosquito brone viruses.

Studies on the Ecology of Arthropod-Borne (Arbor) Viruses **

It is a curious fact that the first disease in man proven to be caused by a filterable virus is arthropod-borne-I refer of course to yellow fever-and yet today our knowledge of this category of viruses, particularly as concerns the epidemiology of human infection, is less complete or more obscure than any of the other main virus families. There are reasons for this: the infection does not pass ...

Mosquito-Borne Viruses and Suppressors of Invertebrate Antiviral RNA Silencing

The natural maintenance cycles of many mosquito-borne viruses require establishment of persistent non-lethal infections in the invertebrate host. While the mechanisms by which this occurs are not well understood, antiviral responses directed by small RNAs are important in modulating the pathogenesis of viral infections in disease vector mosquitoes. In yet another example of an evolutionary arms...

School-based Prevention of Mosquito-borne Diseases: A Systematic Review

Background: Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) are among the important and highly complex issues in public health. School age children have been encouraged to participate in ongoing household MBDs control activities such as source reduction, as part of MBDs control efforts. Numerous school-based health education studies have been conducted worldwide on the interventions to prevent MBDs. However, th...

Distribution of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne viruses along the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan Province.

A total of 54,673 mosquitoes were collected at 11 sites located near the China-Myanmar border in the western part of Yunnan Province during July and August 2007. There were 29 species in 4 genera identified from the collections, including 12 species of Culex, 12 species of Anopheles, 3 species of Aedes, and 2 species of Armigeres. Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles (67.9%, 37,119/54,673) and Ano...