Sentence examples for mosquitoes were established from inspiring English sources

The importance of the serine proteases in egg-formation abilities of mosquitoes were established using a RNAi knockdown method (Isoe et al. 2009).

Mouse parasitemias were determined, and potential infectivity to mosquitoes was established using exflagellation assays as previously described [26].

Confirmation of the presence of sporozoites in the mosquitoes was established by microscopic analysis of salivary gland preparations from individual mosquitoes.

More recently, indigenous transmission of Chikungunya was reported in North-East Italy where Aedes mosquitoes are established, which poses threats to other regions of Europe where the vector is present.

An outbreak of chikungunya virus infections that occurred in Italy during the summer of 2007 involved >200 persons (1 ). A. albopictus mosquito spread in Hawaii was regarded as the cause of a dengue outbreak in 2001 (9 ), and in Florida, dengue fever was recently documented in Key West, where A. aegypti mosquitoes are established (10 ).

Imported dengue cases pose the public health risk for local circulation in European areas, especially southeast France, where the Aedes mosquito is established.

Figure 2 shows the distribution among the 3 surveillance systems of the 199 biologically confirmed dengue cases detected during May 1 November 30, 2010, in the 6 departments of southeast France where the mosquito was established.

An estimated 230 cases occurred during May November 2010 in the 6 southeast departments of France where the Ae. albopictus mosquito was established, and >90% of the infected persons may have been viremic.

Stratification was made for geographic areas where the Ae. albopictus mosquito was established versus other areas and by period of the year (vector activity period versus the rest of the year) to take into account and reduce the potential inequality in catchability.

Table 2 shows the total number of imported dengue cases in France during the study period: the annual number of cases estimated from mandatory notification and the laboratory network systems after stratification by area where the Ae. albopictus mosquito was established, and by the vector activity period.

During the period of vector activity (May November), the estimated number of dengue cases was 39 (95% CI 26 87) for 2007 and 189595% CI 14 37) for 2008 in the 4 departments where the Ae. albopictus mosquito was established at that time; the estimated number was 36 (95% CI 24 79) for 2009 and 234 (95% CI 216 264) for 2010, when a fifth and sixth department, respectively, became affected (Table 2).