BACKGROUND: Community mobilization is often respected as a powerful tool in ensuring the effective controlling of dengue via promoting effective and sustainable dengue vector control strategies. The current study attempts ...

BACKGROUND: Small peptide antigens have become an essential tool for antibody production in the recent life science research applications. The immunogenicity of peptide antigens is a critical factor to induce the immune ...

BACKGROUND: It is believed that Aedes albopictus, one of the dengue vectors in Sri Lanka can be controlled using Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) when integrated with other conventional control methods. The objective of this ...

BACKGROUND: Malaria, dengue, and other tropical diseases carried by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas have greatly affected life expectancy, infant mortality, quality of life and work productivity. Essential ...

INTRODUCTION: Dengue is the most significant mosquito-borne infectious disease in Sri Lanka, causing more than 35,000 cases annually for last five years. The second highest prevalence of dengue was reported from the District ...

BACKGROUND: The maternal transformation of Wolbachia (Wb) to Aedes mosquitoes is an approach that has been widely used in Aedes mosquito population control strategies in the integrated dengue vector control efforts. This ...

BACKGROUND: Pineapple plantations are believed to have contributed to the transmission of dengue fever in pineapple growing areas in Sri Lanka. Hence, there is a need to introduce effective control methods to reduce dengue ...

The mosquito-borne diseases have achieved the world wide attention due to the high number of cases and deaths reported to WHO annually. Such diseases include malaria and dengue fever. Control of these diseases has been ...