Riley Tedrow, a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology, was part of a team of entomologists and malaria experts that have crafted an efficient assay for monitoring mosquito populations responsible for malaria transmission in Madagascar. The work, titled “Novel Multiplex Assay for Malaria Vector Surveillance,” was a combined effort from Case Western Reserve University, Michigan State University and the Madagascar National Malaria Control Program and was published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
About the research
The assay allows for the efficient assessment of mosquito species, the mammalian host(s) the mosquitoes fed upon and detects the presence of the Plasmodium parasites that cause malaria. Further studies deploying this assay in malaria endemic regions of Madagascar are underway.
Read the more through the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene website.