<Anopheles culicifacies is a main malaria vector in southeastern part of Iran, bordring Afghanistan and Pakistan. So far, resistance to DDT, dieldrin, malathion and partial tolerance to pyrethroids has been reported in An. stephensi, but nothing confirmed on resistance status of An. culicifacies in Iran. Methods: In current study, along with WHO routine susceptibility test with DDT (4%), di...

studies on the biting behavior of the more common species of anophelines were carried out in ghasreghand, chabahar (sistan & baluchistan province) from may 1990 to march 1991, in which outdoor human and animal (cattle) biting collections were made between 18.00 hr and 5.00 hr in a total of 13 rounds. in addition, blood smears from anophelines captured in pyrethrum space-spray catches of human a...

Malaria transmission by Anopheles subpictus Grassi, 1899 and Anopheles culicifacies Giles, 1901 was studied from March 2004 to February 2007 in Angul District, Orissa, India, which is highly endemic for malaria. Adult mosquitoes were collected from human dwellings using sucking tubes and a mechanical aspirator. After identification, some An. subpictus and An. culicifacies specimens were subject...

b a ckground : anopheles culicifacies is an important vector of malaria in southeast asia, contributing to almost 70%of malaria cases in india. it exists as a complex of five morphologically indistinguishable species a, b, c, d and e with varied geographical distribution patterns. in india, 8% of the total population of madhya pradesh (central india) contributes about 30% of total malaria cases...

BACKGROUND Anopheles culicifacies is a main malaria vector in southeastern part of Iran, bordring Afghanistan and Pakistan. So far, resistance to DDT, dieldrin, malathion and partial tolerance to pyrethroids has been reported in An. stephensi, but nothing confirmed on resistance status of An. culicifacies in Iran. METHODS In current study, along with WHO routine susceptibility test with DDT (...

Two 1 yr surveys carried out at a gap of 10 yr revealed nine anopheline species from malaria endemic foothills area of Ayodhya - Baghmindi range of West Bengal, India, with 8.4 per cent populations of Anopheles culicifacies. An. culicifacies was incriminated as vector of Plasmodium falciparum with sporozoite rate of 1.23 per cent. Studies on age composition indicated that proportion parous and ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES In Odisha State, the control of malaria vectors has become dependent on synthetic pyrethroids, which are used for treatment of all approved long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs). The vast use of just one class of insecticide has led to the problem of resistance to insecticides in malaria vectors. One of the major malaria vectors in Odisha State is Anopheles culicifacies...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Several studies have been made to study the effect of antisera raised against different tissues (hemolymh, ovary, midgut and salivary glands) on the fecundity and malaria parasite development in the different species of mosquitoes but there are no reports on the antisera raised against the hemolymph of Anopheles culicifacies, the principal malaria vector in India account...

BACKGROUND Anopheles culicifacies is an important vector of malaria in Southeast Asia, contributing to almost 70% of malaria cases in India. It exists as a complex of five morphologically indistinguishable species A, B, C, D and E with varied geographical distribution patterns. In India, 8% of the total population of Madhya Pradesh (Central India) contributes about 30% of total malaria cases, 6...

BACKGROUND Second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) has proven to contain useful biological information at higher taxonomic levels. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to unravel the biological information in the ITS2 region of An. culicifacies and the internal relationships between the five species of Anopheles culicifacies. METHODOLOGY In achieving these objectives, twenty two ITS2 seq...