FORT DETRICK, Md. (June 11, 2012) -- The leishmania assay, the third of a trio of arthropod vector rapid detection devices developed by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, received ...

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 ...

It was only a little more than a century ago that the first great strides were taken in recognizing the role of arthropods as 'vectors' capable of transmitting pathogens that cause disease in humans ...

Haematophagous arthropods, including mosquitoes, ticks, flies, triatomine bugs and lice (here referred to as vectors), are involved in the transmission of various pathogens to mammals on whom they ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

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 ...

Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) are infectious diseases often caused by the bite of an arthropod vector to a human, animal or plant host. Examples include the transmission of malaria protozoans or dengue ...