SamplingAnopheles arabiensis, A. gambiae sensu latoandA. funestus(Diptera: Culicidae) with CDC light-traps near a rice irrigation area and a sugarcane belt in western Kenya

Autor:	A.K. Githeko, M.W. Service, C.M. Mbogo, F.A. Atieli, F.O. Juma
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Veterinary medicine Irrigation Communicable disease Ecology Anopheles gambiae Sampling (statistics) General Medicine Biology medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Sensu Insect Science Vector (epidemiology) Anopheles arabiensis medicine Agronomy and Crop Science Malaria
Zdroj:	Bulletin of Entomological Research. 84:319-324
ISSN:	1475-2670 0007-4853
DOI:	10.1017/s0007485300032430
Popis:	CDC (Communicable Disease Center) light-traps were compared with human-bait collections as an alternative method for sampling malaria vectors in two villages of western Kenya. The numbers ofAnopheles funestusGiles andAnopheles gambiae sensu latoGiles in CDC light-trap collections were significantly correlated to the numbers caught in human-bait collections, but inAnopheles arabiensisPatton the two collections were not significantly correlated. Most of the female vectors collected in the traps were unfed. Parity ofA. arabiensiscollected in CDC light-traps (44.3%) was significantly lower than the rate obtained from females caught on human-bait (54.5%). Although CDC light-traps provide a cheap and convenient method for collecting vectors, further studies should nevertheless be undertaken to determine the influence of species-specific variation in the sizes and age-structure of collections because such variations can affect the epidemiological interpretation of the data.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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