Introduction to Disease Vectors

The control of Chagas disease vectors has been based principally on spraying dwellings with insecticides.

Background: Triatomines found throughout Latin America are natural Chagas disease vectors (ChD).

The extreme north of Chile presents a subtropical climate permissive of the establishment of potential disease vectors.

Many of these blood-feeding hemipteran insects are known to be realistic or potential disease vectors, presenting both physical and psychological risks for public health.

Effective management of insect disease vectors requires a detailed understanding of their ecology and behavior.

Odonates are important biological control agents for the control of insect pests and insect disease vectors of medical and veterinary importance.

Ticks are dangerous ectoparasites of humans and animals, as they are important disease vectors and serve as hosts for various microorganisms (including a variety of pathogenic microorganisms).

It is critical to understand the current geographical distributions of these important disease vectors and the key environmental predictors structuring their distributions not only to assess current risk, but also to understand how they will respond to climate change.

This may be especially significant when odors attract arthropod disease vectors.

This reliance on blood results in frequent feeding episodes every 2 to 4 days [1,2] that enable arthropod disease vectors to acquire and transmit pathogens of medical and veterinary importance.

Background Volatile pyrethroid insecticides, such as transfluthrin, have received increasing attention for their potent repellent activities in recent years for controlling human disease vectors.

Research with human disease vectors has focused on the development of genetic sexing strains (Anopheles arabiensis, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus), the development of a more cost-effective larvae and adult rearing system, assessing various aspects of radiation biology, characterizing symbionts and pathogens, studying mating behavior and the development of quality control procedures, and handling and release methods.

However, work to address the roles of these elements in mosquito disease vectors is in its infancy.

This study has shown that DL-methionine can be added to various water sources as a possible biorational larvicide when applied to natural water sources such as ponds or water-holding containers that often are preferred larval developmental sites for a variety of mosquito disease vectors.

Rapid advances in biological and digital support systems are revolutionizing the population control of invasive disease vectors such as Aedes aegypti.

Understanding how invasive disease vectors rapidly evolve to novel conditions—particularly at the edge of its non‐native range—has important implications for mitigating the prevalence and spread of disease.

Imidacloprid, the world's leading insecticide, has been approved recently for controlling infectious disease vectors; yet, in agricultural settings, it has been implicated in the frightening decline of pollinators.

heptaphyllum resin can be considered as a promising colloid that can be used to control infectious disease vectors through a wide range of possible modes of applications, probably as this bioactive delivery system may allow the optimal effect of the P.

With respect to the management of plant disease vectors, an understanding of the factors driving seasonal changes in vector flight activity may improve management outcomes by facilitating more proactive application of control measures.

Control of plant disease is primarily reliable on the indiscriminant use of chemical pesticides including the bactericides, fungicides, and insecticides that are harmful for plant pathogens, or plant disease vectors.

They increase crop production translating to national food security and contribute to improvement in human health by controlling disease vectors.

Background The use of synthetic insecticides is one of the most common strategies for controlling disease vectors such as mosquitos.

Synthetic gene drive constructs could, in principle, provide the basis for highly efficient interventions to control disease vectors and other pest species.

Synthetic gene drive constructs could, in principle, provide the basis for highly efficient interventions to control disease vectors and other pest species.

Significance Mosquitoes are major disease vectors that require a gut microbiota for development into adults under some conditions but not others.

Mosquitoes include many major disease vectors and are often controlled in their aquatic larval stage, since they are living in defined habitats.

Mosquitoes are prolific disease vectors that affect public health around the world.

Mosquitoes are prolific disease vectors that affect public health around the world.

It will be useful in revealing the genetic polymorphism in general and aiding identifying the causative human pathogens or environmental disease vectors.

OBJECTIVE The ubiquity of cribra orbitalia in skeletal samples has led to rigorous debate over their etiology, with most concluding that nutrition, physiological stressors, and environmental disease vectors synergistically contribute to lesion development.

While rising insecticide resistance has threatened the control of Culex mosquitoes, advances in CRISPR genome-editing tools have fostered the development of alternative genetic strategies such as gene drive systems to fight disease vectors.

While rising insecticide resistance has threatened the control of Culex mosquitoes, advances in CRISPR genome-editing tools have fostered the development of alternative genetic strategies such as gene drive systems to fight disease vectors.

Understanding the microbial ecology of disease vectors may be useful for development of novel strategies aimed at preventing transmission of vector-borne pathogens.

Disrupting metabolic contributions provided by the microbiota of arthropod disease vectors may fuel future innovative control strategies while also offering minimal nontarget effects.