I am a biologist specialized in ecology of vector-borne viral diseases. I carried out my PhD in Biological Sciences in the National University of Cordoba digging in the transmission network of St. Louis encephalitis virus (Flavivirus). After an internship at the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention at Fort Collins and a PosDoc possition in the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Madrid), I got a position as a Researcher at the CONICET and an Associate Professor at the National University of Cordoba. My current research activities and interests are focused on the study of vector/host/virus interactions. With my doctorate students we are studying: - the effect of urbanization and agriculture on arboviruses activity (St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile viruses as models), - how the global warming is affecting southern distribution of Aedes aegypti and its vector capacity to dengue viruses, - the transmission network for West Nile virus in Argentina, - the feeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes species as vectors of St. Louis encephalitis virus and West Nile virus.
2020-07-01 ![]() | Sub-lethal insecticide exposure affects host biting efficiency of Kdr-resistant Anopheles gambiae Malal Mamadou Diop, Fabrice Chandre, Marie Rossignol, Angelique Porciani, Mathieu Chateau, Nicolas Moiroux, Cedric Pennetier 10.1101/653980 Recommended by Adrian Diaz kdr homozygous resistant An. gambiae displayed enhanced feeding success when exposed to permethrin Insect-Treated Nets Malaria is a vector-borne parasitic disease found in 91 countries with an estimated of 228 million cases occurred worldwide during 2018. The 93% (213 million) of those cases were reported in the African Region (WHO 2019). Six species of Plasmodium parasites can produce the disease but only P. falciparum and P. vivax are the predominant species globally. More than 40 species of Anopheles mosquitoes are important malaria vectors (Asley et al. 2018). Intrinsic (genetic background, parasit... |