Technology

Dengue: don’t you, forget about me!

18/09/2020

Srimathy Sriskantharajah

At a time when we seem to hear only about COVID 19, it is easy to forget about other diseases that have had, and will continue to… Read more »

Teaching disease ecology – in the time of COVID-19

19/06/2020

Krisztian Magori

In this year's update to his annual post, Krisztian Magori reflects on his experience teaching his disease ecology class at EWU… Read more »

Electrocuting mosquitoes: a new hope for monitoring dengue vectors?

28/02/2020

Leonardo Ortega-López

The Mosquito Electrocuting Trap (MET) for collection of mosquito populations that transmit dengue virus was recently tested for… Read more »

Honey baits for arbovirus surveillance

20/12/2019

Nadja Wipf

Authors of a recent study evaluated which mosquito trap is best to use in combination with honey-baited FTA filter paper cards as… Read more »

Making it cheaper to track genetically-modified mosquito releases

06/09/2019

Barukh Rohde

Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it… Read more »

A new era in mosquito-borne disease surveillance

17/05/2019

Krisztian Magori

Krisztian Magori (@BiteOfAMosquito) discusses the newest innovation in arbovirus surveillance, using mosquito excreta to test for… Read more »

Bringing the lab into the field

30/11/2018

Christina Faust

New technologies are bringing laboratories to the point-of-collection, improving sensitivity of field investigations and reducing… Read more »

The sex lives of schistosomes; complexed mixing of genomes

19/10/2018

Bonnie Webster

Potential zoonotic schistosomiasis transmission could have a large impact on the control of schistosomiasis. In 2014 there was an… Read more »