Insecticide resistance in disease-transmitting mosquitoes and other vectors arises through a suite of biological changes that undermine the efficacy of chemical control. Metabolic resistance involves ...

Victoria Ingham discusses the importance of insecticides in controlling vector-borne diseases and the ReMVeC project, which ...

Malaria control and elimination is threatened by the spread of insecticide resistance and behavioral adaptation of vectors. Whether mass administration of ivermectin, a broad-spectrum antiparasitic ...

More than half a million people, the vast majority being children under the age of 5, die annually due to malaria, with Sub-Saharan Africa as the most highly burdened region. Mosquitoes belonging to ...

In a context of overuse of insecticides, which leads to the selection of resistant mosquitoes, it is already known that this resistance to insecticides affects interactions between mosquitoes and the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, July 1, 2021) Yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) are evolving resistance to the pyrethroid insecticide permethrin, according to a study published by Colorado State University, ...

Targeted indoor residual spraying focuses insecticide applications on common resting surfaces of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes (an arboviral disease vector) in houses, such as exposed lower sections of ...

The annual incidence of vector-borne disease exceeds 1 billion globally—roughly half of the world’s population is at risk of infection. 1 Mosquito-borne diseases account for the majority of cases (WHO ...

Plasmodium malariae protozoan inside red blood cells in the ring-form trophozoite stage, computer illustration [Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images] A sweeping population‑genomics effort ...

EBM or evidenced based medicine is a health care tool that demands one have scientific data when providing medical care. And that the data be meaningful to the care. As best I know there is no ...

Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes-a major vector of malaria in South America-are evolving in response to insecticides, which may make them harder to kill and malaria more difficult to control, according ...