Preferential feeding success of laboratory reared Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes according to ABO blood group status
Autor: | Ali Akbar Pourfatollah, Mohammad Ali Oshaghi, Mahdiyeh Besharati, Hassan Vatandoost, Kamran Akbarzadeh, Fatemeh Mohtarami, Ali Khamesipour, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Mehdi Anjomruz, Ahmad Raeisi, Fatemeh Rafie, Mohammad Reza Abai |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Veterinary medicine Veterinary (miscellaneous) India Iran ABO Blood-Group System Young Adult ABO blood group system parasitic diseases Genotype Epidemiology Anopheles medicine Animals Humans Malaria vector Anopheles stephensi Volunteer biology Feeding Behavior biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Insect Vectors Malaria Agglutination (biology) Infectious Diseases Insect Science Immunology Parasitology Female |
Zdroj: | Acta tropica. 140 |
ISSN: | 1873-6254 |
Popis: | Recent epidemiological evidences revealed a higher rate of O blood group in the residents of malaria-endemic areas suggesting that groups A, B, and AB associated with a higher disease severity and fatality. Also recent data showed the low prevalence of AB group within the malaria-endemic residents in south of Iran and India. The aim of this study was to determine the ABO blood groups preference of Anopheles stephensi which is the main malaria vector in Iran, southwest Asia, and India. An. stephensi mosquitoes were fed either artificially on A/B/O/AB membrane blood feeders or directly on human volunteer hands and forearms of A/B/O/AB groups in a cage under lab conditions. Phenotype and genotype analyzes of 450-blood-fed mosquito specimens using agglutination and multiplex-allele-specific PCR revealed a significant blood preference of An. stephensi to AB group (40%) than other groups of A (24%), B (21%), and O (15%) in combination of both experiments. High preference of An. stephensi to AB group might increase malaria infection and fatality in this blood group and resulted in low frequency of AB group in the residents of malaria endemic areas. The data suggested that malaria vectors, like parasites may have selection pressure on human genotypes. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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