Biology of Blood-Sucking Insects

Lehane, Michael J.

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-7953-9

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“…These conditions may be lacking in the tap water stored by the pregnant women in this study. Lower level of infection among those who store water could be attributed to the mode of water storage which was mainly in buckets with cover (79.3%) and could also because such stored water was used within five days of storage not being enough for the time required for mosquitoes to breed in it [10,11]. This suggests that the practice of water storage may not be a strong risk practice for malaria transmission, especially among people that store water in closed containers.…”

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Effect of environmental hygiene and water storage on the prevalence of malaria among pregnant women in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Idowu¹

2014

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The effect of availability of cultivated and/or uncultivated land, stagnant water around residential areas and the practice of water storage on the prevalence of malaria infection was assessed among four hundred and sixty-four (464) pregnant women. The prevalence of malaria infection recorded at one stage of pregnancy or the other among enrolled women in this study was 56.9%. Records of infection observed among women living in areas where there were stagnant water and cultivated or uncultivated land were not statistically different from those without such environmental factors in their residence (P > 0.05). The practice of water storage though still a common practice among women in Abeokuta (98.9%) was also not found to significantly influence the malaria status of the pregnant women; infection was higher among women that did not store water in their homes than those that claim to store. Storing of water was mainly in containers with cover implying that the women have a good understanding of the necessary precaution for storing water in homes; there was also no significant difference between mode of water storage and parasitaemia. The physico-chemical composition of the tap water stored may have prevented the breeding of Anopheles mosquitoes in them. We conclude that water storage in homes may not be strong risk behaviour for malaria transmission especially in areas where appropriate measures are employed for water storage in homes.

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Effect of environmental hygiene and water storage on the prevalence of malaria among pregnant women in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Idowu¹

2014

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“…It has been suggested (47), that once the insect has become associated with a narrow range of hosts, specialisations in its physiology will occur which limit the range of other hosts it can exploit. Natural selection will ensure that its systems will become tuned to the exploitation of the resources of its major hosts, which may restrict its ability to deal with unusual situations.…”

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Why do Insects Bite? A review of blood sucking behaviour

Dodd

1995

J R Army Med Corps

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“…Knowledge of adult mosquito population density is paramount to our understanding of host–vector contacts, pathogen inoculation rates, and, ultimately, vector-borne disease transmission risk (Lehane 2005, Silver 2008). A myriad of mosquito collection methods exist; most of them have limitations in their sensitivity and bias toward preferentially collecting mosquitoes of certain stages or nutritional states, or they are limited operationally by their cost or convenience for massive and long-term deployment (Silver 2008).…”

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A New, Cost-Effective, Battery-Powered Aspirator for Adult Mosquito Collections

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We report the development of a new mosquito aspirator with the same aspiration capacity (airflow) of the CDC Backpack Aspirator (CDC-BP), but smaller and lighter (0.8 kg without battery), less expensive (US$45–70), easier to build, and compatible with the use of telescoping extension poles to access hard-to-reach locations. The performance of this new aspirator, named “Prokopack,” was compared with the CDC-BP in laboratory settings as well as in paired collections in combined sewer overflow (CSO) tunnels in Atlanta, GA, and indoor mosquito collections in Iquitos, Peru. The difference in suction power between both aspirators (average, 0.29–0.43 m/s) was negligible. However, 2.3 times more mosquitoes were collected using the Prokopack in the upper wall (> 1.5 m) and ceilings of CSO tunnels than with the CDC-BP in lower walls. Indoor collection in Iquitos yielded significantly more total mosquito numbers [including Culex pipiens complex, Culex (melanoconion) sp., and Mansonia sp.] and Aedes aegypti (L.) in the Prokopack than in the CDC-BP. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of the Prokopack to collect different mosquito species in different epidemiological settings.

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Biology of Blood-Sucking Insects

Cited by 263 publications

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Effect of environmental hygiene and water storage on the prevalence of malaria among pregnant women in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Effect of environmental hygiene and water storage on the prevalence of malaria among pregnant women in Abeokuta, Nigeria

Why do Insects Bite? A review of blood sucking behaviour

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