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Mosquitoes as Flying Syringes: The Solution to Rapid Zika Monitoring

By Caroline Keroack, Weam I. Zaky, Marina Papaiakovou, Jessica Grant, Nils Pilotte, and Steven A Williams

Backed by Gail Williams, Beverly Woolf, Sam Mayo, Stephen Woolf, Steven A Williams, Eric A Ottesen, M.D., Isaac Jumanji, Carol Tomczyk Kubis, Rachel Gerstein, Jan Williams, and 108 other backersDenny Luan, Charlie Sweet, Jillian Tozloski, Brian O'Kelley, Weam I. Zaky, Caroline Keroack, Charlie Lotspeich, Amy Freed, Marina Papaiakovou, Sylvia Greene, Jason Woolf, Susan Haynes, Meredith Peck, Andrew Majewski, Alan Lukas, Sharonne Park, Avril Smith, Patricia Lorda, Nils Pilotte, Michael Woolf, Peter Lin, Michelle Wight, Mingxuan Chia, Maggie Rauh, Kristine Yu, Phyllis J Woolf, Ellen Putnam, Simmie G Plummer, Luna Pearl Woolf, Jessica Grant, Amy Woolf, Henriette Perkins, Taylor Manning, Ailsa Leadbetter, Bob Rose, Glenn Naevestad, Krithika Venkataraman, Stephen Whitney, Jeanne Rickelton, Esther Rickelton, Rhoda Trooboff, Jennine Crane, Lillian Pliner, Rubaiyea, Virginia Naevestad, Charles Farquhar, Melissa Torres, Elise Keroack, Allison Sirois, Melissa, Bing Bing Guo, Mary Keroack, Christine Chesebrough, Angela Argiro, Maria Chavez, Lori Saunders, Jenna Wurster, Marlena M. Bandurski, Kalani Williams, MARIE E BERGH, Kate Brien, Dan Anderson, Varinder Singh Bal, Cindy Wu, Evan Bishop, Eirini Tsekitsidou, Kate Fessler, Grace Gartel, Julia Sweet, NIKOLAOS MITROUSIS, Hunter Grant, Amalia Sweet, Jason Stockwell, Sarah Woolf, Christina Berry, Ann, Regina, Hannah Francis, Linda, Tori, Mursal Nader, McKenna Eckerline, Sofía Vergara, Andrew Wight, Reja Javed, Ria Deshpande, Maria, Lance Piantaggini, Jordan Menter, Alexandra Symeonides-Tsatsos, Isabella McNamara, Morgan Schwartz, Ethan Grant, Joseph Gilleese, Arogers77@smith.edu, Neil Paczkowski, Jay Huang, Gina Nicole, Jennifer Sturley, Sylvie Németh, Erinn Summers, Scassidyseyoum, Kimberly Lu, Xela Miller, Katherine Freitas, Susan Mishiyev, Maxine, and Eric D. Walters

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Smith College

Northampton, Massachusetts

DOI: 10.18258/6657

Grant: Zika Virus Grant: Zika Virus

$4,328

Raised of $3,000 Goal

144%

Funded on 5/04/16

Successfully Funded

$4,328
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DorothySanders

Is it possible to completely prevent a Zika infection explain your response?

May 18, 20220

Baryan Jones

congratulations your funding has completed .

Mar 26, 20220

AliciaMeyer

good luck you have really posted informative article .

Nov 26, 20210

AmeliaDSnyder

Here, clinical to innovative means for rapid ZIKV detection and identification, precisely, clinical, gross

Dec 24, 20200

YadiraRJameson

wonderful job!!!!

May 03, 20200

DianaJClark

important blog thanks for sharing

Oct 10, 20190

JennySTaylor

Great post.

Sep 02, 20190

SusanTCarr

Awesome post!

Jun 28, 20190

ViolaRBravo

Wonderful post!!!!!!!

Mar 06, 20190

Tessie T. Murdock

I must say it is a wonderful and beneficial research.

Jan 10, 20190

Virginia Naevestad Backer

Congratulations to the team!

May 05, 20160

Jennine CraneBacker

Research is a wonderful part of undergraduate science education!

Apr 27, 20160

Cindy WuBacker

Good luck Caroline and team! Yeaahhhh stretch goal!

Apr 21, 20160

Mingxuan ChiaBacker

Congratulations on reaching the goal! Good luck!

Apr 10, 20160

Mary KeroackBacker

FOR SCIENCE. Good luck Caroline!! :)

Apr 08, 20160

Meredith PeckBacker

YOU GOT THIS GIRL!

Mar 30, 20160

Christa WhitneyBacker

Such important work!

Mar 29, 20160

Jan WilliamsBacker

Good luck guys!!! Zap out Zika!

Mar 28, 20160