MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'aedes aegypti'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:57 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636110&cid=t_295706_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twiv.tv%2FIMG_0091.MOV Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Marc Pelletier On episode #115 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Marc discuss the finding that a limited number of incoming herpesviral genomes can replicate and express in a cell, and controlling viral replication in Aedes aegypti with a Wolbachia symbiont. Right click to download TWiV #115 (84 MB .mp3, 117 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email, or listen on your mobile device with Stitcher Radio. Links for this episode: Replication and expression of limited numbers of incoming viral genomes The brainbow cassette Release of Wolbachia infected mosquitoes in Australia (story one, two) Journal articles on Wolbachia infection of mosquitoes... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636110 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:46:16 +0100 4636110 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3822849&cid=t_295706_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fdengue-fever-outbreak-florida%2F Dengue fever, a tropical infectious disease carried by mosquitoes is making a comeback in Florida. Two species of insect – Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus have caused 34 cases this summer. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3822849 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:43:12 +0100 3822849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865318&cid=t_295706_77_f&fid=37259&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.horizonpress.com%2Fblogger%2F2009%2F10%2Fdengue-virus-epidemiology.html The spread of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes through the slave trade and later through the movement of ships and goods during the Second World War facilitated the global expansion of dengue virus. The first descriptions of dengue fever characterized the eighteenth-century pandemic of dengue infection as described in 1780 by Benjamin Rush during a large outbreak of dengue fever in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the USA. Dengue was thought to have been introduced in the USA as a consequence of the rum and slave trade between Africa and Caribbean ports. Dengue outbreaks occurred throughout the USA, the Caribbean and South America during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second dengue pandemic was centred in the mining towns of northern Queensland, Australia, where boom towns and res... Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865318 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:41:00 +0100 2865318