[HTML][HTML] Drones in precision agriculture: A comprehensive review of applications, technologies, and challenges

R Guebsi, S Mami, K Chokmani - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
In the face of growing challenges in modern agriculture, such as climate change,
sustainable resource management, and food security, drones are emerging as essential …

Unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and control of vectors of malaria and other vector-borne diseases

F Mechan, Z Bartonicek, D Malone, RS Lees - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has expanded rapidly in ecological
conservation and agriculture, with a growing literature describing their potential applications …

Eliminating malaria vectors with precision-guided sterile males

RA Apte, AL Smidler, JJ Pai, ML Chow, S Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Controlling the principal African malaria vector, the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, is
considered essential to curtail malaria transmission. However, existing vector control …

New self-sexing Aedes aegypti strain eliminates barriers to scalable and sustainable vector control for governments and communities in dengue-prone environments

SAM Spinner, ZH Barnes, AM Puinean… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
For more than 60 years, efforts to develop mating-based mosquito control technologies have
largely failed to produce solutions that are both effective and scalable, keeping them out of …

Drones for area-wide larval source management of malaria mosquitoes

WR Mukabana, G Welter, P Ohr, L Tingitana… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Given the stagnating progress in the fight against malaria, there is an urgent need for area-
wide integrated vector management strategies to complement existing intra-domiciliary …

Release of sterile Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: chilling effect on mass-reared males survival and escape ability and on irradiated males sexual competitiveness

GA Sánchez-Aldana-Sánchez, P Liedo, JG Bond… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In the sterile insect technique, it is important to measure the impact of mass-rearing and
handling of sterile males to allow a successful control of the target wild population. This …

Requirements for market entry of gene drive-modified mosquitoes for control of vector-borne diseases: analogies to other biologic and biotechnology products

SL James, H Quemada, MQ Benedict… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Gene drive-modified mosquitoes (GDMMs) are proposed as new tools for control and
elimination of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, and promising results have been …

[HTML][HTML] Eliminating malaria vectors with precision guided sterile males

AL Smidler, RA Apte, JJ Pai, ML Chow, S Chen… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Controlling the principal African malaria vector, the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, is
considered essential to curtail malaria transmission. However existing vector control …

Use of Unmanned Aerial vehicles for building a House Risk Index of Mosquito-Borne viral diseases

V Muñiz-Sánchez, KM Valdez-Delgado… - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Vector Control Program in Mexico has developed operational research strategies to
identify entomological and sociodemographic parameters associated with dengue …

Current status of mosquito handling, transporting and releasing in frame of the sterile insect technique

J Guo, X Zheng, D Zhang, Y Wu - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary With the increasing burden of mosquito-borne diseases around the world
and the traditional control methods showing drawbacks, the sterile insect technique (SIT) is …