Sentence examples for mosquitoes present from inspiring English sources

The spraying, Dr. Cohen said, will kill about 90percentt of the mosquitoes present, which means that a certain number infected with the virus may survive.

Extracting mosquitoes every week from SAGO traps was needed to insure that any mosquitoes present in the traps the following week was a new catch.

Mosquitoborne disease transmission is related most directly to the number of infected mosquitoes able to transmit disease and not to the total number of biting mosquitoes present in a population (13, 14 ).

After 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, and 120 minutes of experimental duration, the number of mosquitoes present in both chambers (B and C) was counted, and the percentage of repellency was calculated from the following equation: (1) % Repellency = Total no. of mosquitos placed initially in chamber B − Number of mosquitoes present in chamber B Total No. of mosquitoes placed intially in chamber B × 100.

In total, 49% of female Anopheles mosquitoes presented for challenge ingested a blood meal and approximately 75% of the fed mosquitoes had detectable salivary gland sporozoites.

To address this question, we measured the titers of WNV in the bodies of all the infected mosquitoes presented in Table 1 (Figure 6).

Recently, the comparative analysis of the genomes of the three most representative mosquitoes presented an update of their respective TE composition [13]: in the genome of An. gambiae, TEs of Class II represent 5.9% of the total genome size and Class I 6.85%, of which LTRrs constitutes about 2 3%.

The number of species collected fluctuated substantially between the two methods but was in agreement with previous studies that have indicated that the efficiency of a collection method can vary according to the composition of the mosquito species present, mosquito densities, availability of alternative hosts, and city lighting [ 33- 35].

So by quickly identifying areas where infected birds or mosquitoes are present, health officials hope to limit any human infections.

But foggers sometimes spread their helpful poison too liberally, where no dengue-infected mosquitoes are present, or too rarely, perhaps neglecting poor neighbourhoods.

Associate Prof Simon Reid, a global disease control expert with the University of Queensland's faculty of medicine and biomedical sciences, said a future Zika virus outbreak in Australia was not impossible given that dengue mosquitoes were present in tropical northern Australia.