Saturday, 27 October 2012

Plants provide accurate low-cost alternative for diagnosis of West Nile Virus

Plants provide accurate low-cost alternative for diagnosis of West Nile Virus: Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 26, 2012



While the United States has largely been spared the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases endemic to the developing world-including yellow fever, malaria and dengue fever-mosquito-related illnesses in the US are on the rise. One pathogen of increasing concern in the U.S. is an arbovirus known as West Nile.

Now Qiang "Shawn" Chen, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute