• International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2004

Pest monitoring through field surveys and surveillance helps in forecasting the population build up of pest. It reduces the load of pesticides application and forms the basis of Integrated Pest Management in sericulture. Common sampling techniques for quantifying pest populations and damage caused by them are reviewed emphasizing the need for quick and simple sampling methods. Various direct and indirect sampling methods for establishing pest populations are discussed and methods have been discussed to use indirect sampling method under IPM programme in sericulture. The use of pheromone lures and traps forms one of the important ingredients of integrated pest management, which calls for integration of all available methods in a cost effective and environmental friendly manner offering consistent efficacy. Silk-worms feed on the variety of silk host plants and spin cocoons. Each silk host plant is attacked in the field by number of insect pest species. Several pests are common to mulberry, tasar, oak tasar, muga and eri host plant but pest status and seasonal abundance differs from each crop. The key pests are serious perennially occurring persistent species which cause considerable yield loss every year on large areas and require control measure. Regular occurrence of minor pest is noticed but sudden increase in its population is not known. The occasional pests are sporadic but potential causing sufficient damage. Silk losses due to attack of all the pests have not been calculated. However, information on pest biology and ecology, and control practices being practiced is available but the period of outbreak of major pests and predators on silkworms and its host plant needs to be reinvestigated. Pest and predators forecasting based on surveillance information may provide an opportunity to minimize the losses, particularly to reduce expenditure involved in pest management.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2024

Hitchhiker insect species from international vessels entering Korea in 2022 were monitored. A total of 947 samples of hitchhiker insects were collected using a simple collection method by hand. Among them, 856 individuals were classified as 374 species of 86 families in 10 orders through integrative analysis with DNA barcoding and morphological examination. The rest 91 individuals were identified only to the family level. As a result of examining the distribution of the 374 species (856 individuals), 38 species (71 individuals) were confirmed as not-distributed species in Korea, including six species (11 individuals) as 'regulated species' listed by the Korean Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency. Of 38 not-distributed species, 10 species were detected multiple times (at least twice). Accordingly, it is necessary to strengthen monitoring of the area around the port of entry along with continuous surveillance to prevent invasion of species detected multiple times. For monitoring alien hitchhiker insect species, this study provided detection information and biological data for alien species.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제58권5호
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• pp.551-558
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• 2020

The flaviviruses are small single-stranded RNA viruses that are typically transmitted by mosquitoes or tick vectors and are etiological agents of acute zoonotic infections. The viruses are found around the world and account for significant cases of human diseases. We investigated population of culicine mosquitoes in central region of Korean Peninsula, Incheon Metropolitan City and Hwaseong-si. Aedes vexans nipponii was the most frequently collected mosquitoes (56.5%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (23.6%), Anopheles spp. (10.9%), and Culex pipiens complex (5.9%). In rural regions of Hwaseong, Aedes vexans nipponii was the highest population (62.9%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (23.9%) and Anopheles spp. (12.0%). In another rural region of Incheon (habitat of migratory birds), Culex pipiens complex was the highest population (31.4%), followed by Ochlerotatus dorsalis (30.5%), and Aedes vexans vexans (27.5%). Culex pipiens complex was the predominant species in the urban region (84.7%). Culicine mosquitoes were identified at the species level, pooled up to 30 mosquitoes each, and tested for flaviviral RNA using the SYBR Green-based RT-PCR and confirmed by cDNA sequencing. Three of the assayed 2,683 pools (989 pools without Anopheles spp.) were positive for Culex flaviviruses, an insect-specific virus, from Culex pipiens pallens collected at the habitats for migratory birds in Incheon. The maximum likelihood estimation (the estimated number) for Culex pipiens pallens positive for Culex flavivirus was 25. Although viruses responsible for mosquito-borne diseases were not identified, we encourage intensified monitoring and long-term surveillance of both vector and viruses in the interest of global public health.

• BMB Reports
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• 제55권11호
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• pp.571-576
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• 2022

Advancements in the field of proteomics have provided opportunities to develop diagnostic and therapeutic strategies against various diseases. About half of the world's population remains at risk of malaria. Caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium, malaria is one of the oldest and largest risk factors responsible for the global burden of infectious diseases with an estimated 3.2 billion persons at risk of infection. For epidemiological surveillance and appropriate treatment of individuals infected with Plasmodium spp., timely detection is critical. In this study, we used combinations of depletion of abundant plasma proteins, 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), image analysis, LC-MS/MS and western blot analysis on the plasma of healthy donors (100 individuals) and vivax and falciparum malaria patients (100 vivax malaria patients and 8 falciparum malaria patients). These analyses revealed that α1-antichymotrypsin (AACT) protein levels were elevated in vivax malaria patient plasma samples (mean fold-change ± standard error: 2.83 ± 0.11, based on band intensities), but not in plasma from patients with other mosquito-borne infectious diseases. The results of AACT immunoblot analyses showed that AACT protein was significantly elevated in vivax and falciparum malaria patient plasma samples (≥ 2-fold) compared to healthy control donor plasma samples, which has not been previously reported.

• 환경생물
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.335-340
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• 2022

2017년 9월 부산 감만부두에서 국내 최초로 붉은불개미(Solenopsis invicta)가 검출된 이후, 농림축산검역본부에서는 외래개미류의 유입가능성이 높은 지역에 대해 주기적 예찰을 수행하고 있다. 그러나 현재 사용 중인 개미류 예찰용 트랩들은 개미가 들어갔다가 다시 쉽게 빠져나오거나, 토양이 없는 단단한 바닥 환경에서는 설치하기가 어려운 단점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 다단협관을 이용하여 탈출이 어렵고, 콘크리트 같은 곳에서도 쉽게 설치가 가능한 신형 트랩을 개발하게 되었다. 신형 트랩은 함정트랩에 비해 4배 이상의 개미류 포획효과를 가지고 있으며, 포획된 개미들의 재탈출을 효과적으로 차단하는 것을 확인하였다. 새로 개발된 트랩을 통해 외래개미류의 국내 침입을 효과적으로 차단하기를 기대한다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.202-212
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 2015년-2017년 사이에 실시간 예찰 장비인 스마트 공중 포집기(SSNT)에 의해 포획된 멸구류 3종, 애멸구, 흰등멸구, 벼멸구의 비래 밀도를 분석하였으며, 각 멸구류가 전염하는 바이러스에 대하여 보독충률을 조사하였다. 중국과 가까운 충남, 전남, 전북과 경기도의 서해안 지역의 경우, 비래 밀도는 각각 27.5%, 17.2%, 15.3% 및 10.9%로 충남의 비래 밀도가 가장 높았고, 남해안 지역인 경남 지역의 비래 밀도는 15.9%였다. 그러나 경북과 강원도 지역의 동남부 지역에서 비래 밀도는 6.9%, 4.7%로 상대적으로 낮았으며, 충북의 내륙지역에서 비래 밀도는 1.6%로 가장 낮았다. 2015년부터 3년간 멸구류의 월별 대량 비래 시기는 애멸구는 7월, 흰등멸구와 벼멸구는 7-8월이었다. 2016년 이동성 멸구류 3종의 일별 대량 비래는 7월 중 하순에 7월 15일, 21일, 27일로 3회였으며, 2017년은 5월 28일, 6월 7일 및 7월 8일로 3회였다. 이 시기의 기후도는 중국과 필리핀 부근에서 형성된 고기압 사이로 우리나라를 향해 이동하는 저기압 골이 형성되었다. 2015-2017년 SSNT에 포획된 비래 멸구류의 바이러스 보독충률 조사는 RSV 등 5종의 벼 바이러스에 대하여 RT-PCR 유전자 진단을 하였다. 애멸구 1,185마리를 대상으로 RSV와 RBSCV를 검정한 결과 RSV는 검출되지 않았고, RBSDV는 0.4%의 보독충률을 보였다. 흰등멸구 898마리를 검정한 결과 SRBSDV를 보독 한 개체는 없었으며, 벼멸구 33마리를 대상으로 검정한 결과 RRSV와 RGSV를 보독한 개체는 없었다.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2005

African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious disease of domestic and wild pigs for which there is no vaccine in the world. A proper surveillance of viral activity and a timely response to ASF outbreaks depend upon the rapid diagnosis of ASF viral infection. Internationally prescribed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a fast, sensitive test routinely used in the diagnosis of the ASF. However, inactivated whole ASF virus antigen used in this test is a tedious to prepare and has a risk of outside exposure of infectious virus by laboratory accident during the preparation. An ASF virus noninfectious recombinant antigen is a safe and easily produced alternative antigen for use in diagnostic assay. We have cloned the ORF O61R gene of the ASF virus to generate a recombinant baculovirus producing the p12 protein in insect cells under control of the polyhedrin promoter as non-fusion protein. When used in an indirect ELISA, the p12 antigen showed reactivity with all known ASF positive pig sera but not with negative pig sera. Our results indicated that the p12 protein would be one of alternative antigens for diagnosis of the ASF.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.120-126
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• 2012

토마토 시설재배에서 고온기에 온습도를 조절할 목적으로 사용되는 이류체 포그시스템이 가루이 방제에 미치는 효과를 알아보고, 이를 활용한 효과적이고 친환경적인 가루이 예방 및 방제 방법을 모색하기 위해 총 2회에걸쳐실험을수행하였다. 1차실험에서는 포그처리의가루이 방제 효과를 구명하였고, 구역별가루이 분포를조사하였다. 2차실험에서는 이류체 포그시스템이가루이의 수직분포와 운동성에 미치는 영향 및 방제효과를 검증하는 실험을 수행하였다. 1, 2차 실험에서 이류체포그시스템이 가루이의 개체수와 운동성을 감소시키는 효과가 인정되었다. 시설 내에서 가루이는 출구에서 먼쪽의구역에높은 밀도로 분포하며, 이류체 포그시스템을 작동하였을 때 가루이의 수직분포가 달라지는 것이 조사되었다. 따라서 이류체 포그시스템을 가루이의 예방및방제에 사용하되, 밀도가 높은구역의기주식물 중상부에 황색점착트랩을 설치하여 가루이를 더욱효과적으로 방제할수있을 것으로사료된다.