Blood-meal sources
Further studies on the phlebotomine sandflies of the kala azar endemic lowlands of Humera Metema (north west Ethiopia) with observations on their natural blood meal sources
... Background: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has been known to exist in northwest Ethiopia (Humera-Metema lowlands) since the early 1970s associated with large scale agricultural development activities, often resulting in ...
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Blood meal sources of wild and domestic Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Bolivia: connectivity between cycles of transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi
... the blood meal sources were identified for 144 samples ...multiple blood meal sources were observed for 32 other samples ...
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Molecular identification of Plasmodium spp and blood meal sources of anophelines in environmental reserves on São Luís Island, state of Maranhão, Brazil
... of blood food sources and how important is the role of each in the ecoepidemiology of ...the blood meal sources of anophelines in two environmental reserves on São Luís Island, state of ...
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Malaria vectors and their blood meal sources in an area of high bed net ownership in the western Kenya highlands
... successful blood meal from their favour- ite host [10, 14, ...their blood-meal sources in an area of high bed net ownership in the western Kenya ...
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Seasonal abundance, blood meal sources and insecticide susceptibility in major anopheline malaria vectors from southern Mauritania
... Results also confirmed the wide distribution of An. arabiensis in the country [4, 5, 7–9]. However, despite the number of An. arabiensis mosquitoes analyzed using a highly sensitive quantitative PCR protocol [36], none ...
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Blood meal sources and entomological inoculation rates of anophelines along a highland altitudinal transect in south central Ethiopia
... bovine blood index among the five anopheline ...human blood indices depicting their importance as biting ...of blood meals of ...the blood samples might have also been degraded during stor- ...
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Identification of blood meal sources in the main African malaria mosquito vector by MALDI TOF MS
... Anopheles gambiae s.s. (S molecular form) and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes were raised at the laboratory using standard methods with temperature of 26 ± 1 °C, a rela- tive humidity of 80 ± 10 % and a 12-hour photoperiod ...
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Blood meal sources of Anopheles spp. in malaria endemic areas of Honduras
... Overall, 311 anopheline females were collected. Of these, only 181 (58.2%) female mosquitoes of seven Anopheles species were analysed for being visibly engorged (Table 2). 130 (41.8%) female mosquitoes were not visibly ...
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The resting sites and blood meal sources of Anopheles minimus in Taiwan
... All blood fed samples of ...of blood source detection in the blood-meal samples, which does not necessarily imply a higher preference for a particular ...
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Wide distribution of Trypanosoma cruzi infected triatomines in the State of Bahia, Brazil
... and blood-meal sources, we observed clusters of infected triatomines that fed on humans and domestic animals in the municipali- ties of Curaçá and Irecê, located in the northeast region of ...
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The bionomics of Anopheles merus (Diptera: Culicidae) along the Kenyan coast
... that this species is mainly zoophilic [7]. Analysis of blood meal sources from anopheline mosquitoes collected along the coast of Kenya showed that An. merus predominantly fed on humans, suggesting ...
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Bionomic aspects of Lutzomyia evansi and Lutzomyia longipalpis, proven vectors of Leishmania infantum in an endemic area of non ulcerative cutaneous leishmaniasis in Honduras
... The blood meal source was successfully identified for five sand fly ...and blood meal sources of Lutzomyia species in an island endemic for non-ulcerative cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ...
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Effect of blood meal digestion and DNA extraction protocol on the success of blood meal source determination in the malaria vector Anopheles atroparvus
... two sources of variation was quantified. Digestion status of blood meals, visually estimated according to the Sella score, strongly affects the success of host identification using DNA sequencing with ...
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Substitution of soy bean meal with gomphraena celosiodes leaf meal in the diet of fingerlings of clarias gariepinus: effect on haematological indices and blood (serum) Chemistry
... in blood of fish but a further increase (25, 50, 75 and 100%) did not similarly reduce the red blood cell ...in blood of experimental fish with increase in the inclusion rate of GCLM in the ...
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Growth Performance and Proximate Composition of Archachatina marginata Snail Fed with Formulated Diets Using Pawpaw (Carcia papaya) Leaf Meal and Poultry Droppings Meal as Protein Sources
... leaf meal (PLM) and poultry droppings meal (PDM) as protein sources in snail feed on the performance of Archachatina marginata (Giant African Land Snail) snail was investigated in the Department of ...
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Transgenesis and reverse genetics of mosquito innate immunity
... Our interest is to explore hemolymph-borne antipathogen factors. We have centered our efforts on the detailed analysis of the vitellogenin (Vg) gene as a female- and fat body-specific gene that could drive an effector ...
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Serine hydroxymethyltransferase controls blood meal digestion in the midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
... the blood meal [35, ...of blood-meal digestion by SHMT RNAi was probably due to abnormal expression of digestive enzymes responding to SHMT deple- ...a blood meal, but were ...
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Semi high throughput detection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax oocysts in mosquitoes using bead beating followed by circumsporozoite ELISA and quantitative PCR
... tive blood meal was prepared as previously described [14]; after 14-days of parasite culture, 2% haematocrit and ...°C) blood was used as nega- tive control, the latter allowing the assessment of DNA ...
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Identification of microRNAs expressed in the midgut of Aedes albopictus during dengue infection
... of blood and the resistance to invasion by blood-borne ...a blood meal, including the majority of those that had been highly ...a blood meal (pbm) and then in- crease 48 h pbm ...
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A highly stable blood meal alternative for rearing Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes
... feeding blood in artificial feeders is challenging. Blood can be difficult to source, and it must be both safe for personnel to handle and appropriate for rearing ...ping blood can incur import ...
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