Risk factors for house-entry by culicine mosquitoes in a rural town and satellite villages in The Gambia.

ABSTRACT:

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Background

Screening doors, windows and eaves of houses should reduce house entry by eusynanthropic insects, including the common African house mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus and other culicines. In the pre-intervention year of a randomized controlled trial investigating the protective effects of house screening against mosquito house entry, a multi-factorial risk factor analysis study was used to identify factors influencing house entry by culicines of nuisance biting and medical importance. These factors were house location, architecture, human occupancy and their mosquito control activities, and the number and type of domestic animals within the compound.

Results

40,407 culicines were caught; the dominant species were Culex thalassius, Cx. pipi

SUBMITTER: Kirby MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2584634 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature