Aegypti in a sentence

Transmission Aedes aegypti feeding Adults of the yellow fever mosquito A. aegypti: The male is on the left, females are on the right.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are also a challenging foe because they are most active during the day – meaning that’s when they bite – so bed nets aren’t much help against them.

Aedes aegypti is commonly known as the yellow fever mosquito, which can transmit pathogens that cause dengue fever, Zika virus, and chikungunya.

An Aedes Aegypti mosquito is photographed on human skin.

Dengue, according to the World Health Organization, is an infection caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

It noted that frequent rains allow more water to pool and become stagnant, causing the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus to breed in pools of dormant water.

Rather, scientists are producing mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a bacteria common in other insect and mosquito species, hoping the Aedes aegypti will spread it in the wild.

There has been more than 90 per cent reduction of the Aedes aegypti population in Bukit Batok, Choa Chu Kang, Tampines and Yishun, said the agency.

In 2009 and 2010, local outbreaks of dengue fever, which is spread by the Aedes aegypti, left the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District desperate for new options.

Aedes aegypti can be deadly, but graphene appears to hold some promise of protection.

L1 was expected to display a higher capacity to multiply in cells and in the vector mosquito, Aedes aegypti, since it arrived after L6 and its viral fitness appeared to be superior to that of L6.

That, and the yellow fever, malaria, and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes brought over on some of the early trade ships from Africa.

Vector-borne diseases (such as the Zika virus, which can be spread by aedes aegypti mosquitoes) account for more than 17 percent of all infectious diseases, causing more than 700,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization.

However, these methods appear not to be sufficiently effective, as the frequency of outbreaks appears to be increasing in some areas, probably due to urbanization increasing the habitat of A. aegypti.

Includes some pages from the 1592 edition of De Plantis Aegypti liber.

It has an expansion of the material in De Plantis Aegypti plus some other material.

People who become infected in the jungle can carry the virus to urban areas, where A. aegypti acts as a vector.

Sugar pots and jars on sugar plantations served as breeding place for larvae of A. aegypti, the vector of yellow fever.

The viruses are maintained in the forests of Southeast Asia and Africa by transmission from female Aedes mosquitoes—of species other than A. aegypti—to their offspring and to lower primates.

Transovarial and transstadial transmission of the yellow fever virus within A. aegypti, that is, the transmission from a female mosquito to her eggs and then larvae, are indicated.