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The Sticky Resting Box, a new tool for studying resting behaviour of Afrotropical malaria vectors

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Title
The Sticky Resting Box, a new tool for studying resting behaviour of Afrotropical malaria vectors
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Parasites & Vectors, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1756-3305-7-247
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Marco Pombi, Wamdaogo M Guelbeogo, Katharina Kreppel, Maria Calzetta, Alphonse Traoré, Antoine Sanou, Hilary Ranson, Heather M Ferguson, N’Fale Sagnon, Alessandra della Torre

Abstract

Monitoring densities of adult mosquito populations is a major challenge in efforts to evaluate the epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases, and their response to vector control interventions. In the case of malaria, collection of outdoor-resting Anophelines is rarely incorporated into surveillance and control, partially due to the lack of standardized collection tools. Such an approach, however, is increasingly important to investigate possible changes in mosquito behaviour in response to the scale up of Insecticide Treated Nets and Indoor Residual Spraying. In this study we evaluated the Sticky Resting Box (SRB) - i.e. a sticky variant of previously investigated mosquito Resting Box, which allows passive collection of mosquitoes entering the box - and compared its performance against traditional methods for indoor and outdoor resting mosquito sampling.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Burkina Faso 1 1%
Madagascar 1 1%
Unknown 94 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 15%
Researcher 12 12%
Student > Postgraduate 8 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 22 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 38%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 4%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 27 28%