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Sci. Total Environ.      

Cattle-induced eutrophication favours disease-vector mosquitoes.

Buxton M, Cuthbert RN, Dalu T, Nyamukondiwa C, Wasserman RJ

Free-range cattle rearing in arid landscapes contributes profoundly to ecosystem degradation. Cattle dung nutrification in aquatic habitats potentiall ... Read More

Source: PubMed
Travel Med Infect Dis   2020 Jan 28   

Risk estimation for air travel-induced malaria transmission in central Europe - A mathematical modelling study.

Pondorfer SG, Jaeger VK, Scholz-Kreisel P, Horn J, Krumkamp R, Kreuels B, Mikolajczyk RT, Karch A

Aim of our study was to identify conditions under which malaria transmission caused by imported infectious mosquitoes or travellers could occur at lar ... Read More

Source: PubMed
PLoS ONE      

High prevalence of Phasi Charoen-like virus from wild-caught Aedes aegypti in Grenada, W.I. as revealed by metagenomic analysis.

Ramos-Nino ME, Fitzpatrick DM, Tighe S, Eckstrom KM, Hattaway LM, Hsueh AN, Stone DM, Dragon J, Cheetham S

Arboviruses cause diseases of significant global health concerns. Interactions between mosquitoes and their microbiota as well as the important role o ... Read More

Source: PubMed
J. Gen. Virol.   2020 Jan 31   

Novel monoclonal antibodies against Australian strains of negeviruses and insights into virus structure, replication and host -restriction.

Colmant AMG, O'Brien CA, Newton ND, Watterson D, Hardy J, Coulibaly F, Bielefeldt-Ohmann H, Warrilow D, Huang B, Paramitha D, Harrison JJ, Hall RA, Hobson-Peters J

We report the isolation of Australian strains of Bustos virus and Ngewotan virus, two insect-specific viruses in the newly identified taxon Negevirus, ... Read More

Source: PubMed
PLoS Pathog.      

MyD88-dependent influx of monocytes and neutrophils impairs lymph node B cell responses to chikungunya virus infection via Irf5, Nos2 and Nox2.

McCarthy MK, Reynoso GV, Winkler ES, Mack M, Diamond MS, Hickman HD, Morrison TE

Humoral immune responses initiate in the lymph node draining the site of viral infection (dLN). Some viruses subvert LN B cell activation; however, ou ... Read More

Source: PubMed

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