Parasitology and Entomology
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Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine Staff
- Professor Rick Speare BVSc MBBS PhD
- Dr Deon Canyon PhD MPH
- Rev Dr Wayne Melrose MPH&TM DrPH
- Dr Scott Ritchie PhD - (SPHTM/Queensland Health) Cairns Public Health Centre and Laboratory
- Dr Craig Williams PhD - Cairns Public Health Centre and Laboratory
Please see our annual report available from the History Page for a full list of local, national and international collaborators and students.
Facilities
- Townsville Campus
- Parasitology Laboratory, 1st Floor Biomedical Science Bldg.
- Entomology Laboratory (P2/P3 Containment Level) and a netted testing enclosure
- Cairns Campus
Some images from TM5514 Medical Entomology here
ResearchPhysiology, Transmission, Vector Capacity, Control and Repellents
Head lice
- our online interactive head lice management program - try it out! (website)- Head Lice Information Sheet (website)
- Scientific information on head lice Pediculus capitis - anatomy, biology, treatment, links, bibliography (website)
- Transmission of head lice, Pediculus capitis, and its prevention (ppt in pdf)
- Observations of stasis in head lice as a survival technique against pediculocides (poster in pdf)
- The effectiveness (or failure to be precise) of DEET and botanical repellents against head lice (poster in pdf)
Mosquitoes
- Challenges and current perspectives on dengue in Australia 2003 (ppt in pdf)
- Skeeter Beater: an environmentally friendly mosquito control device (ppt in pdf)
- Geckoes: an environmentally friendly mosquito control agent (ppt in pdf)
- Insecticides: susceptibility, relation to dengue & effect on mosquito behaviour (ppt in pdf)
- Advances in Aedes aegypti biodynamics and vector capacity (ppt in pdf)
- Economic and environmental costs of some invertebrate pests in Australia (ppt in pdf)
- Lymphatic filariasis elimination program (ppt in pdf)
- Several promising botanical mosquitocides (ppt in pdf)
Scabies
Forensic Entomology
Resources
Introductory Medical Entomology Lectures
WHO Protocols for mosquito testing
- WHO/VBC/81.6 Criteria and meaning of tests for determining the susceptibility or resistance of insects to insecticides
- WHO/VBC/81.806 Instructions for determining the susceptibility or resistance of adult mosquitoes to organochlorine, organophosphate and carbamate insecticides - diagnostic test (also okay for synthetic pyrethroids if you lay the test containers horizontally so that the mosquitoes come into to contact with the treated papers)
- WHO/VBC/81.807 Instructions for determining the susceptibility or resistance of mosquito larvae to insecticides
- WHO/VBC/81.812 Instructions for determining the susceptibility or resistance of mosquito larvae to insect development inhibitors
- WHO/VBC/81.5 Instructions for the bio-assay of insecticidal deposits on wall surfaces
"Methods in Malaria Research" 4th Edition
- Edited by Inger Ljungström, Hedvig Perlmann, Martha Schichtherle, Arthur Scherf and Mats Wahlgen. MR4/ATCC Manassas, Virginia 2004
http://www.mr4.org/MR4_Protocols.html
Contents: Parasites, Mosquitoes and Parasites, Animal models, Immunochemistry, Serology, Cellular Immunology, Molecular Biology, Field blood sampling
ARS-CMAVE Protocols for repellent and mosquito testing (Thanks to Ken Posey)
- Impregnated Material Repellent Test Used to screen repellent qualitities of materials that have been impregnated with potential repellents of known toxicity
- Skin Repellent Testing in the lab and field
- Skin Repellent Test Used to screen potential or known repellents, of known toxicity, on the skin
- Unknown Substance Repellent Test Used to screen substances of unknown toxicity or limited quantity
- Methodology for duel-port, 3-layer olfactometer
Posey KH, Barnard DR, Schreck (1998) Triple cage olfactometer for evaluating mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) attraction responses. J. Med. Entomol. 35:330-334. - Method for selecting females for use in other tests
Improvements after Posey KH, Schreck CE (1981) An airflow apparatus for selecting female mosquitoes for use in repellent and attraction studies. Mosq. News 41:566-568.
CDC Protocols for insecticide testing
- CDC Bottle Bioassay for determining the susceptibility or resistance of adult mosquitoes to insecticides
Forensic entomology resources - pictorial keys
- Pictorial key to common domestic adult flies (for use with CDC fly grill record)
- Identification of common adult flies - by Cheong WH, Mahadevan S and Singh I (1971)
- Pictorial key for some common fly larvae - by Mahadevan S, Cheong WH and Loong KP (1980)
Links
- Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
- Journal of Rural and Tropical Public Health
- USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Veterinary, Medical and Urban Entomology (CMAVE)
- PHEREC - Public Health Entomology Research and Education Center - Florida A & M University