Efficacy of Greenlid Biotraps towards arbovirus-infected mosquitoes**

Greenlid Biotrap 对虫媒病毒感染的蚊子的功效**

• 批准号: 536449-2018
• 负责人: Hunter, Fiona
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Brock University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=654113
• 关键词: Efficacy; Greenlid; Biotraps; towards; arbovirus

Greenlid Envirosciences and Brock University's Centre for Vector-Borne Diseases have teamed up to develop the best Biotrap possible. Greenlid's Biotrap is the world's first fully biodegradable, just-add-water mosquito trap. The Biotrap is designed to mimic the breeding grounds of female container-breeding mosquitoes and then kill them and their offspring. Reducing mosquito populations is one component of vector control, but the true measure of success would be if the Biotraps can trap and kill mosquitoes infected with mosquito-borne disease (e.g. Zika, West Nile virus) as well as uninfected mosquitoes. We simply do not know whether infected mosquitoes display the same egg laying behaviours as do uninfected mosquitoes. This research partnership aims to test whether arbovirus-infected mosquitoes are attracted to the Biotraps to the same extent that uninfected mosquitoes are. Through a series of experiments in Brock's Containment Level 3 facility - where we are able to work with live, infected mosquitoes - we will optimize both the colour and odour of the Biotraps so that Greenlid can assure potential customers that their Biotraps have been scientifically proven to be effective against infected mosquitoes as well as uninfected mosquitoes!

Greenlid Envirosciences和Brock University的媒介传播疾病中心已经合作开发了最佳的生物制作。 Greenlid的生物框架是世界上第一个完全可生物降解的，刚刚的水蚊子陷阱。该生物制品旨在模仿雌性容器繁殖蚊子的繁殖地，然后杀死它们及其后代。减少蚊子种群是媒介控制的组成部分，但真正的成功量度是，如果生物塑料可以捕获并杀死感染了蚊子传播疾病的蚊子（例如，西尼罗河病毒）以及未感染的蚊子。 我们根本不知道被感染的蚊子是否表现出与未感染的蚊子相同的卵子铺设行为。该研究合作伙伴关系旨在测试是否吸引了生物塑料的Arbovirus感染的蚊子，其程度与未感染的蚊子相同。通过在Brock的第3级设施中进行的一系列实验 - 我们能够与现场感染的蚊子一起工作 - 我们将优化生物架的颜色和气味，以便绿化基础可以向潜在的客户确保其生物饰品的科学证明可以有效地证明对感染的蚊子以及未感染的蚊子有效！