Publications by authors named "Marco Notarangelo"
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- Borrelia miyamotoi, a bacteria spread by Ixodes ticks, was identified as a cause of hard tick relapsing fever in the US in 2013, leading to surveillance efforts in nine states.
- From 2013 to 2019, 300 cases were reported, with 166 confirmed and a median patient age of 52; most cases were in males and occurred primarily during the summer months.
- Common symptoms included fever and headache, with 28% experiencing recurring fevers and 13% of patients hospitalized; continued surveillance is essential to better understand this disease's incidence and impact.
Jamestown Canyon virus disease (JCVD) is a potentially neuroinvasive condition caused by the arbovirus Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV). Human cases of JCVD have increased in New Hampshire (NH) over the past decade, but vector surveillance is limited by funding and person power. We conducted mosquito surveillance with a focus on human JCVD cases south central NH during 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Biological controls with predators of larval mosquito vectors have historically focused almost exclusively on insectivorous animals, with few studies examining predatory plants as potential larvacidal agents. In this study, we experimentally evaluate a generalist plant predator of North America, Utricularia macrorhiza, the common bladderwort, and evaluate its larvacidal efficiency for the mosquito vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in no-choice, laboratory experiments. We sought to determine first, whether U.
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