Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria or sleeping sickness, are currently developing or spreading alarmingly in many tropical countries. IRD immunologists, epidemiologists and entomologists are ...

Scientists have used machine learning algorithms to teach computers to recognize the insect feeding patterns involved in pathogen transmission. The study also uncovers plant traits that might lead to ...

A recent review published in PLOS Pathogens discussed the current research on the role of molecular mechanisms in mediating immune priming in insects and regulating vector-borne disease transmission.

It is hard to overstate the medical importance and burden of vector-transmitted infectious diseases. Whether the metric used is mortality (malaria, for example, kills 1 million to 2 million people ...

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia pipientis and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not ...

AFTER years of being housed in various post offices, the St George Insect Vector Control Division now has a place to call home. The new building, which used to be the old Tunapuna post office on Rail ...