(n.) A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of rheumatism; -- called also breakbone fever. It occurs in India, Egypt, the West Indies, etc., is of short duration, and rarely fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(2) The immunofluorescent method is rapid and simple, and is recommended for routine detection of serum antibody in dengue hemorrhagic fever.
(3) Dengue infections were prospectively studied among 4- to 16-year-old students at a Bangkok school.
(4) Vero type E 6 cell cultures were used to isolate six strains of Dengue 2 virus; monoclonal antibodies were used for viral identification.
(5) In Brazil, although we have identified the Zika virus , we don’t know much about it compared with dengue or yellow fever.
(6) Male Aedes albopictus experimentally infected with dengue virus types 1, 2, 3, or 4 transmitted their infection sexually to female Ae.
(7) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(8) During the dengue outbreak which occurred in Reunion Island, one dengue type 2 strain was isolated at Institute Pasteur in Madagascar.
(9) In 1981 an epidemic of dengue haemorrhagic fever occurred in Cuba and this suggests that there is a high risk that such epidemics could recur in the region.
(10) Dengue hemorrhagic fever, a severe manifestation associated with secondary infection, most often occurs in children.
(11) Patients with primary dengue infection developed dengue 2 virus (D2V) permissive peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) 2--3 weeks after infection.
(12) Of these, 18 patients suffered clinically from dengue fever, 21 patients had positive dengue fever history in their family members, 21 patients had positive history in their neighbors.
(13) By the direct immunofluorescent technic, dengue antigen, human immunoglobulins, and beta 1C globulin were detectable on the surfaces of platelet suspensions from 48% of patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever.
(14) We have now characterized in vivo Th-cell priming activity of one of these peptides (MVE 17, amino acids 356 to 376) and an analogous peptide derived from the E-glycoprotein sequence of the dengue (DEN) 2, Jamaica strain (DEN 17, amino acids 352 to 368).
(15) In rabbit endothelium, dengue-2 virus passaged through monkey kidney monolayer cells (LLC-MK2) or human lymphoblastoid cells (raji) produced significantly more virus than the seed obtained from suckling mouse brain (MB).
(16) Antibodies to the dengue virus in the dengue infected mother can cross the placenta and transfer to the fetus, which can cause new born infants to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome easily when they are primarily infected with dengue virus.
(17) Cell monolayers persistently infected with JE-Bei or monolayers treated with UV-inactivated JE-Bei, were resistant to superinfection with JE, West Nile and dengue 2 viruses but were susceptible to infection with the alphavirus Sindbis.
(18) Titres of haemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibodies against dengue virus type 2 were raised in all the 15 cases from whom sera were collected during the acute stage.
(19) Anti-dengue activity in human milk did not decrease over a period of ten months after delivery.
(20) Reported dengue activity in Puerto Rico (PR) increased in 1990 for the fourth consecutive year.
Mosquito
Definition:
(n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that the conditions which inhibit the initiation of development are present in the Malpighian tubules and not in the midgut of the refractory mosquitoes.
(2) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(3) The isolates of B. sphaericus were more effective (2-3X) against both mosquito species than Bactimos.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) Human activity not only increases risk, but influences control by killing mosquito larvae, killing adult mosquitos or preventing mosquitos from feeding.
(6) However, mosquitoes infected with more than 4 larvae became more active than uninfected mosquitoes 8 days after infection.
(7) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
(8) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(9) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(10) Antibody capable of interfering with infection of mosquitoes was shown to persist for 4 months after parasitaemia disappeared.
(11) Thus, a primary factor regulating the production and release of CS protein by sporozoites is their contact with soluble CS protein within the mosquito.
(12) In many cases, virus growth was more severely impaired in mosquito cells than in chicken cells, but the opposite phenotype was also seen, in which the mutant grew as well as or better than the wild type in mosquito cells but more poorly in chicken cells.
(13) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
(14) Immature mosquito populations were reduced by mats of Azolla microphylla covering more than 80% of the water surface.
(15) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
(16) In order to determine population dynamics of Anopheles sinensis, a survey based on average number of female mosquitoes per trap-night was carried out during the period of 5 years from 1987 to 1991.
(17) Six-day-old adult Toxorhynchites amboinensis mosquitoes were inoculated with purified TSWV.
(18) Sera from 299 fishermen 16 to 80 years old, residents in Cananeia and Iguape counties, southern cost of São Paulo State, Brazil, were studied in order to identify a possible association between the prevalence of specific antibodies to the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and exposure to haematophagus mosquitoes evaluated by the prevalence of arbovirus antibodies.
(19) This situation may have occurred due to lack of awareness among the public, poor surveillance by the National Malaria Program or higher density of the vector mosquitos in the area.
(20) Four formulations of an insect growth regulator, Bay Sir 8514 (a benzoylurea compound), were tested against 2 species of riceland mosquito larvae, Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Psorophora columbiae.