Host Feeding Pattern of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Kolkata# India
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Blood meal analysis of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, collected from cattle sheds and human dwellings in the highly congested residential areas of the city, and from outdoor situations in an urban garden, revealed a high bovine blood index of both the species in the former and a high human blood index in the latter two collection areas. The difference in the various blood indices of each of the two species in the same collection areas is statistically significant (P <0.05). The blood-feeding pattern of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus pooled from the three collection sites revealed that a majority of members of both the species had fed on one host and a small percentage on more than one host, and, that, both the species were mainly anthropophilic in nature.
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