Using a near-infrared spectrometer to estimate the age of anopheles mosquitoes exposed to pyrethroids.

Autor: Maggy T Sikulu, Silas Majambere, Bakar O Khatib, Abdullah S Ali, Leon E Hugo, Floyd E Dowell
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 3, p e90657 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090657
Popis: We report on the accuracy of using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to predict the age of Anopheles mosquitoes reared from wild larvae and a mixed age-wild adult population collected from pit traps after exposure to pyrethroids. The mosquitoes reared from wild larvae were estimated as
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