Mosquito attractants

L Dormont, M Mulatier, D Carrasco… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - Springer
Vector control and personal protection against anthropophilic mosquitoes mainly rely on the
use of insecticides and repellents. The search for mosquito-attractive semiochemicals has …

Update on mosquito bite reaction: Itch and hypersensitivity, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment

A Vander Does, A Labib, G Yosipovitch - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mosquito bites are endured by most populations worldwide. Reactions to mosquito bites
range from localized wheals and papules with associated pruritus to rare systemic reactions …

[HTML][HTML] Differential mosquito attraction to humans is associated with skin-derived carboxylic acid levels

ME De Obaldia, T Morita, LC Dedmon, DJ Boehmler… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Some people are more attractive to mosquitoes than others, but the mechanistic basis of this
phenomenon is poorly understood. We tested mosquito attraction to human skin odor and …

Plasmodium-associated changes in human odor attract mosquitoes

A Robinson, AO Busula, MA Voets… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Malaria parasites (Plasmodium) can change the attractiveness of their vertebrate hosts to
Anopheles vectors, leading to a greater number of vector–host contacts and increased …

[HTML][HTML] Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under naturalistic conditions

D Giraldo, S Rankin-Turner, A Corver, GM Tauxe… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The African malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae exhibits a strong innate drive to
seek out humans in its sensory environment, classically entering homes to land on human …

Multi-cue integration: how female mosquitoes locate a human host

RT Cardé - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
To reproduce, the female yellow fever mosquito has to find a human host. There are many
potential cues available to guide such navigation: exhaled carbon dioxide, a plethora of skin …

Mosquito repellents: An insight into the chronological perspectives and novel discoveries

J Islam, K Zaman, S Duarah, PS Raju… - Acta Tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
Mosquito being the major medically important arthropod vector; requires utmost attention to
reduce the sufferings and economic consequences of those living in the endemic regions …

Olfaction in Anopheles mosquitoes

JK Konopka, D Task, A Afify, J Raji, K Deibel… - Chemical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As vectors of disease, mosquitoes are a global threat to human health. The Anopheles
mosquito is the deadliest mosquito species as the insect vector of the malaria-causing …

Differential attraction in mosquito–human interactions and implications for disease control

J Martinez, A Showering, C Oke… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mosquito-borne diseases are a major burden on human health worldwide and their
eradication through vector control methods remains challenging. In particular, the success of …

Malaria hotspots: is there epidemiological evidence for fine-scale spatial targeting of interventions?

G Stresman, T Bousema, J Cook - Trends in parasitology, 2019 - cell.com
As data at progressively granular spatial scales become available, the temptation is to target
interventions to areas with higher malaria transmission–so-called hotspots–with the aim of …