The fight against infectious disease is a race against evolution. Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Viruses adapt to ...

Anopheles darlingi mosquitoes—a major vector of malaria in South America—are evolving in response to insecticides, which may ...

Malaria mosquitoes in South America are evolving and becoming harder to control with current methods, according to a new study.

Beyond resistance‑associated genes, the researchers uncovered deep geographic population structure and high overall genetic diversity.

Mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles are well known as primary vectors of malaria. But a new study suggests that Anopheles species, including some found in the United States, also are capable of carrying ...

Public health experts have called for more proactive actions against a new malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, warning that it could make malaria control and management more difficult in the country ...

Experts call it the malaria machine and the more one learns about anopheles gambiae, it is easy to see why. It breeds prolifically, it feeds on man, and infected females have a good chance of ...

Research conducted by the Biotechnology and Nuclear Research Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission reveals that the Anopheles mosquito shows extreme resistance to insecticides in some ...

“If Orson Welles, in his now famous broadcast of October 30. 1938, had announced not that the Martians had landed in New Jersey, but that a mosquito called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had ...