Diversity of anopheline species and their Plasmodium infection status in rural Bandarban, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Historically, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh was considered hyperendemic for malaria. To better understand the contemporary malaria epidemiology and to develop new and innovative control strategies, comprehensive epidemiologic studies are ongoing in two endemic unions of Bandarban district of CHT. Within these studies entomological surveillance has been undertaken to study the role of the existing anopheline species involved in the malaria transmission cycle throughout the year.

Methods

CDC miniature light traps were deployed to collect anopheline mosquitoes from the sleeping room of the selected houses each month in a single union (Kuhalong). Molecular identification was carried out for available Anopheles species complexes. Circumsporozoite prote

SUBMITTER: Alam MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3419674 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature