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Insect Vectors

"Insect Vectors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Insects that transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Insect Vectors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Insect Vectors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Insect Vectors" by people in Profiles.
  1. Monitoring alpha-cypermethrin susceptibility of Phlebotomus argentipes, the vector of visceral leishmaniasis in India, using the CDC bottle bioassay. Parasit Vectors. 2024 Dec 05; 17(1):503.
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  2. Improved high quality sand fly assemblies enabled by ultra low input long read sequencing. Sci Data. 2024 Aug 24; 11(1):918.
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  3. Gene Editing in the Chagas Disease Vector Rhodnius prolixus by Cas9-Mediated ReMOT Control. CRISPR J. 2024 04; 7(2):88-99.
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  4. Acute Chagas Disease Manifesting as Orbital Cellulitis, Texas, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 11; 27(11):2937-2939.
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  5. Identification and Isolation of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genotype IV from Culex vishnui Collected in Bali, Indonesia in 2019. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 07 19; 105(3):813-817.
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  6. Improving houses in the Bolivian Chaco increases effectiveness of residual insecticide spraying against infestation with Triatoma infestans, vector of Chagas disease. Trop Med Int Health. 2021 09; 26(9):1127-1138.
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  7. Single mosquito metatranscriptomics identifies vectors, emerging pathogens and reservoirs in one assay. Elife. 2021 04 27; 10.
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  8. Higher gametocyte production and mosquito infectivity in chronic compared to incident Plasmodium falciparum infections. Nat Commun. 2021 04 26; 12(1):2443.
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  9. Supporting elimination of lymphatic filariasis in Samoa by predicting locations of residual infection using machine learning and geostatistics. Sci Rep. 2020 11 25; 10(1):20570.
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  10. Outdoor Residual Insecticide Spraying (ODRS), a New Approach for the Control of the Exophilic Vectors of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis: Phlebotomus orientalis in East Africa. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 10; 14(10):e0008774.
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