Blood Meal Sources of Anopheles spp. in Malaria Endemic Areas of Honduras.

ABSTRACT: Malaria remains a life-threatening disease in many tropical countries. Honduras has successfully reduced malaria transmission as different control methods have been applied, focusing mainly on indoor mosquitoes. The selective pressure exerted by the use of insecticides inside the households could modify the feeding behavior of the mosquitoes, forcing them to search for available animal hosts outside the houses. These animal hosts in the peridomicile could consequently become an important factor in maintaining vector populations in endemic areas. Herein, we investigated the blood meal sources and Plasmodium spp. infection on anophelines collected outdoors in endemic areas of Honduras. Individual PCR reactions with species-specific primers were used to detect five feeding sources on 181 visi

SUBMITTER: Escobar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7412045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature