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	Vector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vector (spatial): In physics and engineering, vector most often refers specifically to an object that has a special relationship to the spatial coordinates/directions, that is, an element of a tangent bundle.
		In physics vector (field) theory refers to a quantum field theory in which both chiralities of a Dirac field are present.
		A biological vector is a mechanism that transmits genes or organisms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vector (427 words)

	Vector (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Species of mosquito, for example, serve as vectors for the disease-causing West Nile Virus; which the insects may ingest by feeding from an infected bird and regurgitate into a human, infecting him or her.
		This sense of "biological vector" is the primary one in epidemiology and in common speech.
		A vector in this sense is a DNA construct, such as a plasmid or a bacterial artificial chromosome, that contains an origin of replication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vector_(biology) (364 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Malaria: Obstacles and Opportunities (1991)
		In the case of malaria, the vector is the anopheline mosquito and the disease-causing organism is the malaria parasite.
		Usually, the vector status of populations is defined by determining sporozoite and oocyst rates (the proportion of infective mosquitoes in a vector population and the proportion of mosquitoes with oocysts, respectively).
		Vector Incrimination The identification of anopheline mosquitoes responsible for malaria transmission is known as vector incrimination, and the approach is the same for any given area.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309045274/html/118.html (7931 words)

	Vector article - Vector Latin mathematics element vector space field Vector (spatial) - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vector (spatial): In physics and engineering, vector most often refers specifically to an object that has a special relationship to the spatial coordinates/directions, i.e.
		In biology, a vector is a mechanism that transmits genes or organisms.
		Vector is the name of a 1980s new wave rock band
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Vector (307 words)

	The Arboviruses: Epidemiology and Ecology
		For this reason, whenever the blood-feeding activity of an arbovirus vector is interrupted for longer than the sum of the host's incubation period and the duration of viremia, the virus effectively ceases to exist in the host, and its survival is entirely dependent on the fortunes of the vector.
		The simplest form of vector borne transmission involves the direct transfer of pathogen from one host to another, without replication in the vector.
		The result is that vector biologists almost invariably initiate intensive studies when epidemics are already history, and we know far more about the age structure, vectorial capacity, behavior, and dynamics of vector populations after epidemics than in the crucial periods when they begin.
	www.ciesin.org /docs/001-378/001-378.html (5491 words)

	About Sove
		The Society for Vector Ecology is a professional organization formed in 1968 by a group of individuals involved in vector biology and control programs in California.
		The Society is committed to solving many complex problems encountered in the field of vector biology and control.
		Among these are the suppression of nuisance organisms and disease vectors through integration of control elements, such as environ-mental management, biological control, public education, and appropriate chemical control technology.
	www.sove.org /About-Sove.html (391 words)

	Intensive Course in Vector Biology & Identification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The effective use of today's vector control tools and the development of novel methods of targeting vectors both depend on specialist expertise in vector biology and identification, which this course aims to provide.
		This course is designed for entomologists, parasitologists and epidemiologists, especially those working (or planning to work) in vector control programmes as well as those aiming for a research career in vector biology.
		Students will undertake a 1-week research project at NHM on vector biology or identification, closely supervised by specialist staff from the Departments of Entomology and Zoology.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /prospectus/short/sicvbi.html (521 words)

	Active Skim View of: 7. Vector Biology, Ecology, and Control
		In the case of malaria, ' + 'the vector is the anopheline mosquito and the disease-causing organism is the malaria parasite.
		WHERE WE ARE TODAY Vector biology, broadly defined, is the science ' + 'devoted to studying insects that transmit pathogens, their contact with humans, and their interaction with the disease-causing organisms.
		Vector ' + 'Incrimination The identification of anopheline mosquitoes responsible for malaria transmission is known as vector incrimination, and the approach is the ' + 'same for any given area.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309045274&chap=118-143 (11711 words)

	Vector definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Vector: In medicine, a vector is a carrier.
		For example, in malaria a mosquito serves as the vector that carries and transfers the infectious agent (Plasmodium), injecting it with a bite.
		In molecular biology, a vector may be a virus (or a plasmid); a piece of foreign DNA is inserted in the vector genome to be carried and introduced into a recipient (host) cell.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5968 (264 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Resistance of parasites to drugs, resistance of arthropods to insecticides, and the present unavailability of vaccines to many of the vector-borne diseases all underscore the importance of searching for alternative means of control.
		A principal aim of the course is to incorporate cutting-edge molecular biology and genetic approaches into this research area, in order to develop new and efficacious strategies for the control of vectors and vector-borne diseases.
		About half of the course will be dedicated to the study of vectors in general, with emphasis on recent discoveries.
	www.up.ac.za /academic/entomological-society/rostrum/dec98/page5.html (416 words)

	Dr. Jesus Valenzuela's leishmania vaccine research laboratory
		The Vector Molecular Biology Unit focuses on the molecular aspects of salivary and midgut genes in vector/parasite interaction.
		This novel approach to use vector salivary proteins or genes to block parasite infection may be applicable to other species of leishmania and also to other systems like in ixodid ticks to control Lyme disease.
		The lipophosphoglycan (LPG) structure present in the surface of the leishmania parasite is important for the attachment of the parasite to the sand fly midgut.
	www.niaid.nih.gov /dir/labs/LMVR/valenzuela.htm (536 words)

	DCVBU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Building on our ongoing studies of visceral leishmaniasis control in Iran, new funding was obtained from the Wellcome Trust to develop a multi-agency GIS platform in Iran for exploring spatio-temporal distributions of a range of zoonoses, and rationalising surveillance and control activities by the medical and veterinary services.
		These include the analysis of spatio-temporal distributions of vectors and disease, as well as mathematical modelling of the effects of transmission reduction on the patterns of clinical disease.
		Nevertheless, pyrethroid-resistance in malaria vectors remains an important threat to the use of treated nets.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /dcvbu (1477 words)

	Insect Science at Boston College - Boston College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marc Muskavitch, Ph.D. Investigations of the development and cell biology of the midgut of the malarial mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, and on interactions between the midgut and the malarial parasite.
		Mohammed Shahabuddin, Ph.D. Investigations into how the malaria parasite is transmitted from one human to another, using tools from the diverse scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, immunocytochemistry, genomics and proteomics.
		Chagas disease is spread to humans by bites from blood-sucking reduviid insects known as kissing bugs.
	www.bc.edu /schools/cas/biology/research/insect (264 words)

	Final Report No.22 - Training: success of 'Biology of Disease Vectors' course
		The Biology of Disease Vectors course was established to try and rectify this shortage of skilled scientists working to control vector-borne diseases.
		Graduates from the early courses are already emerging as leaders in field of vector borne diseases, and a number of them have been chosen to teach in more recent courses.
		The BDV course is helping to train a new generation of vector biologists, who are already playing leading roles in improving the health of millions of people.
	www.who.int /tdr/research/finalreps/no22.htm (491 words)

	Vector Biology & ID Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Practical entomological techniques used in vector identification and incrimination, and in the study of vector competence, behaviour and ecology
		For the project, students are encouraged to bring insect, acarine or snail material from their home country for identification and analysis.
		The course is open to all applicants with either a Second-class Honours degree of a recognised university in science, or a related subject, or a degree in medicine.
	www.lshtm.ac.uk /dcvbu/vbi.htm (879 words)

	Research approaches in the development of interventions against vector-borne infection -- Spielman 206 (21): 3727 -- ...
		grant proposals in vector biology were reviewed by a panel of
		in vain, for a return to the original concept of vector biology.
		vector biology training programs could be identified in the
	jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/abstract/206/21/3727 (349 words)

	Vector Biology and Control - Mission and Functions
		The Regional Programme for Vector Biology and Control was established to work in close collaboration with other Division of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control (DDC) programmes with a vector control component and with the Division of Healthy Environments and Sustainable Development (DES) on environmental issues.
		The VBC aims at contributing to the reduction of vector borne disease (VBD) transmission so as to impact on disease mortality and morbidity.
		To contribute to the strengthening of legislative frameworks and regulation mechanisms and their application in relation to the promotion of integrated vector management.
	www.afro.who.int /vbc/index.html (152 words)

	Vector (biology) Definition / Vector (biology) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Traditionally in medicine, a vector is an organismIn biology and ecology, an organism (in Greek organon = instrument) is a living being.
		[click for more], for example, serve as vectors for the disease-causing West Nile Virus; which the insects may ingest by feeding from an infected bird and regurgitate into a human, infecting him or her.
		(any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects")
	www.elresearch.com /Vector_%28biology%29 (445 words)

	-- Professional CV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A number of emerging and re-emerging insect vectored diseases pose a threat to human and animal health in the United States.
		Please refer to the Purdue University Department of Entomology Extension website for further information and regular updates regarding vector borne diseases, the insects involved in disease transmission and recommended prevention and/or control measures.
		This project will generate much needed information on the unique biology of ixodid ticks and will be an important platform for discovery efforts aimed at new tick control strategies.
	entm29.entm.purdue.edu /directory/entm/323.htm (699 words)

	Research approaches in the development of interventions against vector-borne infection -- Spielman 206 (21): 3727 -- ...
		that stranded the larvae of the vector mosquitoes at the margins of
		vector biology that were funded in 1993 dealt with fundamental
		that approach vector biology from the tradition of vector transgenics.
	jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/206/21/3727 (5104 words)

	WelchWeb: Collection Development
		Graduate degree programs are offered in biochemistry; cellular and molecular biology; immunology; neuroscience; art as applied to medicine; functional anatomy and evolution; history of medicine; molecular biophysics; physiology; pharmacology and molecular sciences; cellular and molecular medicine; biomedical engineering; and human genetics and molecular biology.
		Biology: Eisenhower collects at the basic information level in microbiology and most of the biological and ecological sciences.
		Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this field, and the strong biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics collections of Eisenhower, general biophysics is collected at the minimal level.
	www.welch.jhu.edu /about/CDPolicy.html (8553 words)

	Chemistry and Specifications of Pesticides (WHO Technical Report Series 988): 16th report of the who expert committee ...
		16th report of the who expert committee on vector biology and control.
		are used in vector control, mostly in developing countries.
		of vectors, the control of which is sought, is touched upon.
	oem.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/59/3/202-b (382 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Network on the Biology of Parasite Vectors consists of a group of laboratories that are applying recent advances in molecular biology to research on vector arthropods.
		The basic principle underlying the establishment of the Network is an open exchange of ideas and resources that foster collaboration among Network and non_Network participants, in order to optimize the mobilization of intellectual and technical resources available toward relevant issues in disease vector biology.
		Facing the Future, a report from the Scientific Institute on the Biology of Disease Vectors
	klab.agsci.colostate.edu /mfnet/mfnet.html (114 words)

	Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology \| Course Finder \| University of Salford - A Greater Manchester University
		This programme is for UK and international graduates who wish to enter research, teaching, scientific laboratory management and careers in parasitology including diagnostic centres and overseas field centres.
		This MSc programme explores in detail the biology of parasitic diseases and how such diseases are spread by vectors.
		Students not wishing to continue onto the research project can be awarded the PgDip in Molecular Parasitology and Vector Biology if leaving the programme at this stage.
	www.salford.ac.uk /course-finder/course/1393 (459 words)

	SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) vocabulary is a set of XML elements that describes two-dimensional graphics.
		SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (such as lines, curves and predefined shapes consisting of a number of paths), images and text.
		Gradients consist of continuously smooth color transitions along a vector from one color to another, possibly followed by additional transitions along the same vector to other colors.
	kosmoi.com /Gallery/SVG (1841 words)

	About AFRIMS: Vector Biology
		AFRIMS conducts field and laboratory studies on malaria, dengue, scrub typhus and several other vector-borne diseases endemic in Southeast Asia.
		Field projects include epidemiological investigations, vector biology studies, and evaluation of new repellents and insecticide resistance testing.
		Such innovative technology may allow better prediction of mosquito habitat and discrete use of vector control measures.
	www.afrims.org /afrimsprofile/p30.htm (162 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Parasitology and Vector Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Biology of the Coccidia by P. Long on page 6, and page 6
		Biology of Echinococcus and Hydatid Disease by R. Thompson on page 345
		Biology of Plant Parasitic Nematodes by Wallace, H. (Price: $124.95)
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0124732755?v=glance (759 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Malaria: Obstacles and Opportunities (1991)
		Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy.
		Factors affecting larval survival and mechanisms controlling adult production in aquatic habitats are largely unknown, even for the most important vector species.
		Geographic variation in the intensity of malaria transmission is of prime importance for the development and stratification of control measures.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309045274/html/136.html (525 words)

	ARS Project: ETIOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATHOGENESIS, AND VECTOR BIOLOGY OF SUGARBEET AND VEGETABLE VIRUSES (407682)
		To improve plant productivity by increasing our understanding of the etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis and vector biology of sugarbeet, vegetable, and interrelated crop and weed viruses with emphasis on ecologically sound management practices for control of virus diseases.
		Studies on lettuce dieback, an emerging soil-borne virus disease of lettuce, will focus on determination of epidemiological factors affecting symptom development, spread and development and characterization of sources of resistance.
		Studies on virus yellows of sugarbeet will focus on developing tools for monitoring outbreaks of yellowing viruses, as well as characterization of molecular mechanisms of synergistic interactions leading to increased disease severity in the yellows complex.
	www.ars.usda.gov /research/projects/projects.htm?ACCN_NO=407682 (257 words)

	Slide sets for training in vector biology and control1
		Vector Control - Methods for Use by Individuals and Communities.
		Slide sets for training in vector biology and control
		Personal protection and community action for vector and nuisance control (prepared in collaboration with C.F. Curtis).
	www.who.int /docstore/water_sanitation_health/vectcontrol/ch11.htm (56 words)

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