Avia-GIS is recruiting two entomologists.

(based on questions for Modeller from the German Risk Perception Study on the Hantavirus

The impact of a decade (2004-2015) of research on vector-borne diseases

Details of more than 260 EDENext papers are now available online.

Following his keynote speech at a session dedicated to breeding and protecting crops and livestock at the Climate-Smart Agriculture Global Science Conference earlier this year, EDENext coordinator Renaud Lancelot has given an interview discussing the impact of climate change on emerging infectious diseases.

France's Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD, an institute dedicated to research for development) has produced an informative video examining its study into the distribution and density of [[Phlebotomus]] sand flies.

Posters and the book of abstracts from the Genes, Ecosystems and Risk of Infections (GERI 2015) conference, held in Crete last month, are now available.

Researchers have found evidence supporting the notion that [[Phlebotomus sergenti]] is the primary vector of [[Leishmania tropica]] in a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in the High Atlas of Morocco and established that the vector feeds on a variety of vertebrates, paving the way for future investigations.

Researchers believe ectoparasitic mites may be reservoirs as well as vectors of some pathogenic rickettsiae following their detection of [[Rickettsia helvetica]] and [[R. monacensis]] in ectoparasitic mites infesting rodents in south-western Slovakia.

Researchers believe rodents could play an important role in leishmaniasis epidemiology in Ethiopia following their discovery of [[Leishmania donovani]] and [[L. tropica]] positive rodents in endemic areas.

A deadline of May 31 has been set for applications for the postdocotral Calmette and Yersin Programme within the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP).

Researchers have shed light on the impact of assumptions for the duration of the extrinsic incubation period (EIP) when modelling the dynamics of vector-borne diseases.

After noting that Puumala virus (PUUV) is one of the predominant hantavirus species in Europe causing mild to moderate cases of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, researchers have produced the complete genome of a strain from Central Europe.

Researchers have provided the first evidence that two [[Leishmania]] species possess similar, highly modified lipophosphoglycan (LPG), which enables them to develop in the same sand fly vector.

Researchers have identified the existence of intraclonal genetic exchange between two transgenic [[Leishmania infantum]] fluorescent strains in their natural vector [[Phlebotomus perniciosus]].

Researchers have shed light on the habitat preferences of [[Aedes albopictus]] mosquitoes in urban environments, using spatial statistical models to evaluate the relationship between egg abundance and land cover types at a site in Rome, Italy.

Researchers have identified three salivary proteins which could be used individually or in combination for screening canine sera in endemic areas of visceral leishmaniases for vector exposure and for estimating the risk of [[Leishmania infantum]] transmission in dogs.

Researchers have found evidence of the life-long shedding of Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) by its host, following a monthly capture-mark-recapture study analysing 18 wild bank voles for the presence and relative quantity of PUUV RNA in excreta and blood. Their findings contradict current views of a decline in shedding, suggesting pathogen kinetics in wild hosts may differ considerably from those found in the lab.

Researchers believe hantavirus infection should be taken into consideration in patients with clinically suspected Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever virus and have established that hantavirus was circulating in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey before the 2009 outbreak.

There were smiles all round as awards of €1,000 each were made to the authors of two winning posters during the closing session of Genes, Ecosystems and Risk of Infections (GERI 2015), which ended on Thursday, April 23, in Heraklion, Crete.