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                             Auto Dissemination
                           Devices (ADD) deployed
                             to manipulate gravid
                            female mosquitoes to
                             disperse insecticide
                             to other Aedes spp.
                             mosquito habitats in
                            reducing the mosquito
                                  population







                                  Release of Ae.
                                 aegypti carrying
                                 Wolbachia at 28
                                persistent dengue
                               hotspots for dengue
                                      control







                                                                            Entomotoxicology is an
                                                                             approach to analysing
                                                                          entomological evidence in
            Infectious Diseases  Research Centre (IDRC)                 quantifying chemicals or drugs
                                                                          detecting, identifying, and

                                                                          in decomposing remains. A
                                                                          study was initiated to detect
                                                                         the presence of malathion in
                                                                         Chrysomya megacephala, one
                                                                         of the most important forensic
                                                                                  fly species
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