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An artist’s rendition of the experiment setup. | Source: Chen Y-X, Pan C-Y, Chen B-Y, Jeng S-W, Chen C-H, Huang J-J, et al<\/p><\/div>\n

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) can help fight dengue-carrying mosquitoes in Taiwan sewers, according to a new study published in PLOS Neglected Tropic Diseases<\/em><\/a> by Wei-Liang Liu of the Taiwan National Mosquito-Borne Diseases Control Research Center and colleagues. <\/p>\n

In the study, researchers combined a crawling robot, wire-controlled cable car, and real-time monitoring system into a UGV that takes high-resolution, real-time images of areas within Taiwan’s sewer system. Specifically, the UGV targeted covered roadside ditches that were suspected to be hotspots for mosquitoes carrying dengue fever. <\/p>\n

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Schematic diagrams of the UGV equipment, which includes a crawling robot, a monitoring system, and a wire-controlled cable car. | Source: Chen Y-X, Pan C-Y, Chen B-Y, Jeng S-W, Chen C-H, Huang J-J, et al<\/p><\/div>\n

Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by the dengue virus that is spread by several mosquito species that are part of the genius Aedes<\/em>, which can also spread chikungunya, yellow fever, and zika. The World Health Organization estimates that 390 million people worldwide are infected with dengue fever manually. <\/p>\n

Sewers make easy breeding grounds for Aedes<\/em> mosquitoes, and the most common mosquito monitoring programs struggle to monitor and analyze the density of mosquitoes in hidden areas, like covered ditches.<\/p>\n

The robot system created by the researchers was deployed in five administrative districts in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan from May to August 2018. The UGVs found traces of Aedes<\/em> mosquitoes in stages from larvae to adults in 20.7% of inspected sewers. <\/p>\n

Using the information gathered from the robots, researchers could follow up with additional prevention control measures, including insecticides of high-temperature water jets, in sewers where mosquitoes were found. <\/p>\n

After those interventions, the gravitrap index (GI), a metric that measures the adult mosquito population density nearby, dropped from 0.62 to 0.19. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe widespread use of UGVs can potentially eliminate some of the breeding sources of vector mosquitoes, thereby reducing the annual prevalence of dengue fever in Kaohsiung City,\u201d the authors said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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