World Mosquito Day

mosquitoToday is World Mosquito Day, which is being celebrated at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

To mark the occasion, have a look at a selection of the great mosquito/malaria content on F1000Research!

 

Slides:

slidesmalariaDe Wit M, Bil K, Siddiqui R et al. What is causing the rise in malaria cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Results of vector, efficacy, adherence, and KAP studies [v1; not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2015, (slides) (doi: 10.7490/f1000research.1000086.1)

Presented at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Day 2015

 

Articles:

Xu P, Zhu F, Buss GK and Leal WS. 1-Octen-3-ol – the attractant that repels [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/5ic] F1000Research 2015, 4:156 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6646.1)

Sanford MR, Cornel AJ, Nieman CC et al. Plasmodium falciparum infection rates for some Anopheles spp. from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4n3] F1000Research 2014, 3:243 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.5485.2)

Siddiqui MR, Willis A, Bil K et al. Adherence to Artemisinin Combination Therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/596] F1000Research 2015, 4:51 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6122.2)

Leal GM and Leal WS. Binding of a fluorescence reporter and a ligand to an odorant-binding protein of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yp] F1000Research 2015, 3:305 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.5879.2)

Posters:

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Sharakhov I, Sharma A, Xia A et al.The X chromosome, heterochromatin and speciation in malaria mosquitoes. F1000Posters 2012, 3:810 (poster)

PRESENTED AT American Genetic Association Annual Symposium 2012

 

 

 

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