Vector role and human biting activity of Anophelinae mosquitoes in different landscapes in the Brazilian Amazon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental disturbance, deforestation and socioeconomic factors all affect malaria incidence in tropical and subtropical endemic areas. Deforestation is the major driver of habitat loss and fragmentation, which frequently leads to shifts in the composition, abundance and spatial distribution of vector species. The goals of the present study were to: (i) identify anophelines found naturally infected with Plasmodium; (ii) measure the effects of landscape on the number of Nyssorhynchus darlingi, presence of Plasmodium-infected Anophelinae, human biting rate (HBR) and malaria cases; and (iii) determine the frequency and peak biting time of Plasmodium-infected mosquitoes and Ny. darlingi.

Methods

Anopheline mosquitoes were collected in peridomestic and forest edge h

SUBMITTER: Oliveira TMP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature