Open AccessPopulation dynamics of blood-fed female mosquitoes and comparative efficacy of resting boxes in collecting them from the northwestern part of riverside county, California
Author(s) -
Tejbir Singh Sandhu,
Gregory W Williams,
Bryan W Haynes,
M. S. Dhillon
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.107168
Subject(s) - culex quinquefasciatus , biology , arbovirus , population , culex , mosquito control , vector (molecular biology) , blood collection , veterinary medicine , ecology , zoology , medicine , larva , virus , immunology , environmental health , aedes aegypti , malaria , emergency medicine , biochemistry , gene , recombinant dna
Testing of blood-fed mosquitoes plays an integral role in arbovirus surveillance and in understanding its interaction mechanisms between host, vector and reservoir. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of two different traps (gravid and resting boxes) for collection of blood-fed mosquitoes in the northwestern part of Riverside County.