Aline Edith Mekeu Noutcha

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In the case of Zika fever, can initiating a competition between Aedes aegypti & Ae.Albopictus to reduce transmission be an efficient control strategy?

Natural competitors redcude vector populations by displacing the vectors and replacing infective with non-infective bites.

20 March 2016 2,557 8 View

Aedes aegypti transmit Zika viruses, can their populations be recuded by innundating disease foci with their non-vector competitor, Aedes Albopictus?

This is a follow up from David Carrison's contribution on Aedes albopictus in Florida. If a non vector species can compete with a vector, during epidemics when there is no preventive measures yet...

20 March 2016 7,338 1 View

In a conservation ecology investigation must there be wet lab experiments?

Migration, poaching and overuse for direct or indirect consumption threaten biodiversity and ecosystems that the scientific community must preserve. I decided to introduce my undergraduate...

05 December 2015 2,477 8 View

When should an investigation in Health socio-economics have wet lab experiments?

The fierce controversy now is that there should have been a wet lab experiment component to investigate the fate of donated anti-malaria drugs.

05 December 2015 9,461 2 View

Do we have Monarch Butterflies in Africa? Can we domesticate them any where in the tropics to study their migratory behaviours?

During Migration, it is believed that four generations of Monarch Butterflies take last. Monarch butterflies are pretty bright and sharp orange and black coloured. They will make a nice tourist...

04 March 2015 3,034 14 View

The genus Anopheles exists only among insects. the use of "Anopheles mosquito" is rampant. Why not simply say Anopheles or mosquito? please educate me

I don't understand the emphasis made while using the name (Generic and common) for the same organism. It is confusing me to read Anopheles mosquito or Plasmodium parasite

01 January 1970 3,001 13 View

Capacity building through students research projects: work load or community service

I was asked the question below and decided to start a discussion about the theme because the contributions of teachers/lecturers are most times not understood, unappreciated and consequently...

01 January 1970 9,509 1 View