OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical features of mosquito allergy in children and the ability of commercially available mosquito allergy tests to detect children with mosquito allergy in Thailand. METHODS Patients with mosquito allergy aged 1 month to 18 years were recruited. Demographic data, history of mosquito allergy (onset of the reaction, reaction type) and clinical features were recorde...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, poses tremendous burden to human health with about 390 million annual dengue infections worldwide. The environmental temperature plays major role in the mosquito life-cycle as well mosquito-human-mosquito transmission cycle. While previous studies have provided useful insights into understanding of diseases, there is little em...

Allethrin, present in mosquito coil is a pyrethroid pesticide. Pyrethroids are used as insecticides worldwide. Self poisoning with mosquito coil is very rare. We describe a case of attempted suicide by consumption of mosquito coil. Patient recovered without any sequel.

An improved understanding of mosquito population dynamics under natural environmental forcing requires adequate field observations spanning the full range of temporal scales over which mosquito abundance fluctuates in natural conditions. Here we analyze a 9-year daily time series of uninterrupted observations of adult mosquito abundance for multiple mosquito species in North Carolina to identif...