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 ...
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J. Med. Entomol. 2020 Feb 01
Large-Scale Operational Pyriproxyfen Autodissemination Deployment to Suppress the Immature Asian Tiger Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Populations.
Unlu I, Rochlin I, Suman DS, Wang Y, Chandel K, Gaugler R
Effective suppression of container-inhabiting Asian Tiger [Aedes albopictus (Skuse)] (Diptera: Culicidae) and yellow fever [Aedes aegypti (L.)] (Dipte ...
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J. Med. Entomol. 2020 Feb 01
Macrophyte Diversity and Complexity Reduce Larval Mosquito Abundance.
Lumpkin WP, Stirek KR, Dyer LA
The role of aquatic arthropod diversity and community interactions of larval mosquitoes are important for understanding mosquito population dynamics. ...
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Soc Sci Med
Uncertainty in times of medical emergency: Knowledge gaps and structural ignorance during the Brazilian Zika crisis.
Kelly AH, Lezaun J, Löwy I, Matta GC, de Oliveira Nogueira C, Rabello ET
Uncertainty was a defining feature of the Brazilian Zika crisis of 2015-2016. The cluster of cases of neonatal microcephaly detected in the country's ...
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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 ...
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