ABSTRACT: Background: Malaria remains a recurrent public health disease. Several plasmodial species are vigorously implicated in malaria infection. The aim of this study is to assess the risk of ...

Bugs such as houseflies, fruitflies, blowflies, hoverflies and mosquitoes all belong to an order called Diptera -- which contains over 125,000 known species, and possibly over a million in total.

With these contributions, we demonstrate that WIPs are an excellent medium to automatically recognize a large amount of hematophagous diptera species with very high accuracy and low computational cost ...

A total of 8352 mosquitoes were identified as six species: Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Culex quinquefasciatus, Anopheles gambiae s.l., Anopheles funestus, and Mansonia africana. Ae. aegypti was ...

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As a consequence, extensive research is devoted to understanding the biology of this diverse group of insects. A key aspect of the success of Diptera is the wide range of habitats that they can ...

So far, 14 insect species from five Diptera families (Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Fanniidae, Muscidae, and Phoridae) have been recorded from human cadavers in the region (Andrade et al., 2005; ...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceské Budejovice, Czechia Nineteen species of various families of the ...

The collection of adults was performed daily until the complete skeletonization of the carcasses. At least 32 Diptera species from the families Calliphoridae, Muscidae, Sarcophagidae, Fanniidae, ...