Abstract: Acaricides in tick control, had been thought to be in Africa the panacea for over a century. Environmental and economic constraints, development of acaricide-resistant strains due to acaricide misuse, have brought about the need for an alternative tick control strategy. The use of tick resistant cattle has then been advocated and echoed in the USA and Australia where it got its full expansion. In Africa, few works have been undertaken on tick resistance despite the fact that many t...
Abstract: Malaria remains a major health problem in africa, with anopheles gambiae giles as the principle vector. Plant nectar feeding forms an integral part of the vectorial capacity of this mosquito species, yet paucity of information on the nature of this behaviour persists. While it is recognized that olfactory cues play an important role in mediating orientation and attraction of mosquitoes to host plants as sources of sugar, little effort has been made to identify the kairomones involv...
Abstract: Arboviral pathogens are a growing public health problem especially in Africa. Bridge vectors facilitate virus transmission to humans from forest or sylvatic environments although the species involved are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the role of Aedes chaussieri in sylvatic arboviral transmission cycle. Archived samples collected from the Oloolua Forest in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, were analyzed in pools for viruses by cell culture in Vero Cells follow...