PATIENTS who return from the tropics may present a great variety of clinical syndromes. They may present themselves as a pyrexia of unknown origin, requiring special investigations for such conditions as malaria or visceral leishmaniasis, or with the dysenteric syndrome, requiring sigmoidoscopy and search for entamoeba histolytica in scrapings from the bowel. There may be undue loss of weight w...

Malaria transmission varies from one area to another and there are also local difference in time and space. The objective of the study was to determine the local variability of entomological parameters namely, mosquito abundance, human biting rate (HBR), sporozoite rate for Plasmodiumfalciparum and entomological inoculation rate (EIR). The study was carried out in Rufiji District south eastern ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Correct vector identification is an important task in the planning and implementation of malaria vector control programmes. This study was designed to provide baseline information on the species composition and distribution of members of the Anopheles gambiae complex in three eco-vegetational zones in Bayelsa state, Nigeria. METHODS Adult mosquitoes were collected by p...

The genus Leptophion is recorded for the first time from Vietnam, including new records of three species, viz. L. giganteus Shimizu & Watanabe, maculipennis (Cameron) and radiatus (Uchida), country. comparative morphological pictorial characters Vietnamese specimens were given. In addition, variations in-country distribution newly species also provided.

background : ecological studies on mosquitoes are very important in vector control programs. there are a few studies about the ecology of mosquitoes in northern iran. this study was carried out to detect fauna and larval habitat characteristics of mosquitoes. methods : this study aimed to determine fauna and the ecology of mosquitoes in neka county, mazandaran province, northern iran from april...

Anopheles mosquitoes are important vectors of malaria and lymphatic filariasis (LF), which are major public health diseases in Nigeria. Malaria is caused by infection with a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium and LF by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti. Updating our knowledge of the Anopheles species is vital in planning and implementing evidence based vector control programs. To ...