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Determination of the parity status of mosquitoes in a field study to evaluate picaridin repellents on Southeast Asian vectors of malaria and arboviruses.
Mosquitoes were collected by human landing collections to evaluate picaridin repellents in a field study. The morning after mosquito collections, mosquitoes are identified and their parity status is determined under the microscope in the field. This field study revealed differences in repellent sensitivity between Southeast Asian vectors of malaria and arboviruses. Moreover, by calculating the parity rate of the mosquito populations, it was shown that mosquito populations that are insensitive to repellents are older (have a higher parity rate) than sensitive populations. See Van Roey et al.
Image Credit: Karel Van Roey
Citation: (2014) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 8(12) December 2014. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(12): ev08.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v08.i12
Published: December 18, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Van Roey et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Mosquitoes were collected by human landing collections to evaluate picaridin repellents in a field study. The morning after mosquito collections, mosquitoes are identified and their parity status is determined under the microscope in the field. This field study revealed differences in repellent sensitivity between Southeast Asian vectors of malaria and arboviruses. Moreover, by calculating the parity rate of the mosquito populations, it was shown that mosquito populations that are insensitive to repellents are older (have a higher parity rate) than sensitive populations. See Van Roey et al.
Image Credit: Karel Van Roey