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Nov. 16, 2006

UC Davis Grad Students Collaborating with Mali Scientists in Researching One of the World’s Oldest and Deadliest Diseases: Malaria

trio of researchers
Lisa Reimer is flanked by UC Davis medical entomologists Gregory Lanzaro (left) and Anthony Cornel.
Tara Thiemann and villagers
UC Davis researcher Tara Thiemann with villagers near Taram, Cameroon.
Tara Thiemann dipping larvae
Tara Thiemann dips mosquito larvae in Tiko, Cameroon. She worked three weeks in Mali and five weeks in Cameroon collecting and examining mosquito specimens.
Lisa Reimer in lab
Lisa Reimer works in a laboratory at the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako, Mali. She treated the glass bottles with a discriminatory dose of permethrin and inserted 20 mosquitoes. Then, to determine the level of insecticide resistance, she counted the number knocked down.

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