Mosquitoes don’t target everyone equally, some people are irresistible snacks, while others get ignored.The ordinary choices we make daily, from what we drink to what we wear, might be sending ...

However, recent studies have identified that HPPD is essential for insects, such as mosquitoes, to digest their blood meals. In the study, the researchers found that feeding human blood containing ...

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Additional measures introduced are Intermittent prophylaxis in pregnancy (IPtp) and cross border initiatives, to be able to address the burden of the parasitic disease as a regional challenge. The ...

Nitisinone inhibits an enzyme that mosquitoes need to digest blood and is therefore deadly to the insects. The researchers gave female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which transmit malaria ...

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Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the ...

Recognizing and eliminating these breeding grounds is crucial in controlling their population. A female Anopheles mosquito engorged while feeding on human skin. Image via Depositphotos. Understanding ...

The present study is based on an experiment done by taking blood samples of patients suffering from alkaptonuria and on female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which is the major mosquito-causing disease ...

DESPITE the availability of many drugs and preventive strategies to treat or halt the spread of malaria, it continues to infect more than 250 million people annually, the majority of whom are children ...

The research team tested the mosquitocidal effect of nitisinone on female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many African countries.