Public Health Center and Laboratory
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Laboratory Research
Activities will encompass several tropical, environmental and vector-borne diseases. The Facility aims to act as a gateway laboratory for northern Australia, the Pacific and PNG. Protecting the northern frontier of Australia against emerging and re-emerging diseases. The Facility may answer the call of Scott Halstead (eminent CDC medical entomologist) to create a dengue-focused laboratory. From modest beginnings, the aim is to create a resource of international quality - a "world class lab". The Facility will benefit the Tropical Triangle Alliance involving NQld, PNG & Fiji. Current research directions are envisaged as dengue, leptospirosis, malaria and marine envenomation.
Current Projects
Controlling the dengue vector Aedes aegypti
This study is designed to develop lure and kill strategies to control the dengue vector Aedes aegypti.
Investigator: Scott Ritchie