The effective and eco-friendly control of Anopheles vectors plays a key role in any malaria
management program. Integrated Vector Management (IVM) suggests making use of the full …

In the last decades, major research efforts have been done to investigate the insecticidal
activity of plant-based products against mosquitoes. This is a modern and timely challenge …

Achieving a malaria-free world presents exciting scientific challenges as well as
overwhelming health, equity, and economic benefits. WHO and countries are setting …

The fight against mosquito-borne diseases is a challenge of huge public health importance.
To our mind, 2015 was an extraordinary year for malaria control, due to three hot news: the …

Nanobiomedicine and parasitology are facing a number of key challenges, which mostly
deal with the paucity of effective preventive and curative tools against mosquito-borne …

During the 1930s and 1940s the idea of releasing insects of pest species to introduce
sterility (sterile insect technique or SIT) into wild populations, and thus control them, was …

Abstract Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) represent a huge threat for millions of humans and
animals worldwide, since they act as vectors for important parasites and pathogens …

The rapid spread of highly aggressive arboviruses, parasites, and bacteria along with the
development of resistance in the pathogens and parasites, as well as in their arthropod …

Drosophila suzukii, a vinegar fly originated from Southeast Asia, has recently invaded
western countries, and it has been recognized as an important threat of a wide variety of …

This article presents an overview of paratransgenesis as a strategy to control pathogen
transmission by insect vectors. It first briefly summarises some of the disease-causing …