Title |
The Sticky Resting Box, a new tool for studying resting behaviour of Afrotropical malaria vectors
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Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-7-247 |
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Authors |
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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