Using Gene Drive Technologies to Control Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases

Control and Management of Vector-Borne Diseases in Disaster Conditions

Disasters are a set of unexpected situations that occur as a result of natural misadventure or human manipulations. Depending on the type, time, and location of the events, the insect population causing vector-borne diseases is affected, which may eventually lead to widespread epidemics. Parasitic diseases such as malaria, leishmaniosis, arboviral diseases such as dengue fever, West Nile enceph...

A set of ontologies to drive tools for the control of vector-borne diseases

We are developing a set of ontologies dealing with vector-borne diseases as well as the arthropod vectors that transmit them. After building ontologies for mosquito and tick anatomy we continued this project with an ontology of insecticide resistance followed by a series of ontologies that describe malaria as well as physiological processes of mosquitoes that are relevant to, and involved in, d...

Control of Vector-Borne Human Parasitic Diseases

1Oswaldo Cruz Institute-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IOC-FIOCRUZ), Av. Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2National Institute of Science and Technology for Molecular Entomology (INCT-EM), Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco D-SS, Sala 05, Cidade Universitária, RJ, Brazil 3Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, University of Glasgow, ...

Paratransgenic Control of Vector Borne Diseases

Conventional methodologies to control vector borne diseases with chemical pesticides are often associated with environmental toxicity, adverse effects on human health and the emergence of insect resistance. In the paratransgenic strategy, symbiotic or commensal microbes of host insects are transformed to express gene products that interfere with pathogen transmission. These genetically altered ...

Control of vector-borne infectious diseases by human immunity against α-Gal.