{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Maiga H"],"funding":["United States of America"],"pagination":["e0007775"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6779276"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(9)"],"pubmed_abstract":["INTRODUCTION:The widespread emergence of resistance to insecticides used to control adult Aedes mosquitoes has made traditional control strategies inadequate for the reduction of various vector populations. Therefore, complementary vector control methods, such as the Sterile Insect Technique, are needed to enhance existing efforts. The technique relies on the rearing and release of large numbers of sterile males, and the development of efficient and standardized mass-rearing procedures and tools is essential for its application against medically important mosquitoes. METHODS:In the effort to reduce the cost of the rearing process, a prototype low-cost plexiglass mass-rearing cage has been developed and tested for egg production and egg hatch rate in comparison to the current Food and Agric"],"journal":["PLoS neglected tropical diseases"],"pubmed_title":["Reducing the cost and assessing the performance of a novel adult mass-rearing cage for the dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika vector, Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus)."],"pmcid":["PMC6779276"],"funding_grant_id":["The research presented in this paper was partially funded by the United States of America under the grant to the IAEA entitled: Surge expansion for the sterile insect technique to control mosquito populations that transmit the Zika virus"],"pubmed_authors":["Bimbile Somda NS","Wallner T","Bouyer J","Maiga H","Yamada H","Mamai W","Konczal A","Herranz GS","Herrero RA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Reducing the cost and assessing the performance of a novel adult mass-rearing cage for the dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika vector, Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus).","description":"INTRODUCTION:The widespread emergence of resistance to insecticides used to control adult Aedes mosquitoes has made traditional control strategies inadequate for the reduction of various vector populations. Therefore, complementary vector control methods, such as the Sterile Insect Technique, are needed to enhance existing efforts. The technique relies on the rearing and release of large numbers of sterile males, and the development of efficient and standardized mass-rearing procedures and tools is essential for its application against medically important mosquitoes. METHODS:In the effort to reduce the cost of the rearing process, a prototype low-cost plexiglass mass-rearing cage has been developed and tested for egg production and egg hatch rate in comparison to the current Food and Agric","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019 Sep","modification":"2025-04-04T08:29:31.861Z","creation":"2019-10-30T08:17:49Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6779276","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31553724"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pntd.0007775"]}}