Exploiting Anopheles responses to thermal, odour and visual stimuli to improve surveillance and control of malaria.
Sci Rep
; 7(1): 17283, 2017 12 11.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29229938
ABSTRACT
Mosquito surveillance and control are at the heart of efforts to eliminate malaria, however, there remain significant gaps in our understanding of mosquito behaviour that impede innovation. We hypothesised that a combination of human-associated stimuli could be used to attract and kill malaria vectors more successfully than individual stimuli, and at least as well as a real human. To test this in the field, we quantified Anopheles responses to olfactory, visual and thermal stimuli in Burkina Faso using a simple adhesive trap. Traps baited with human odour plus high contrast visual stimuli caught more Anopheles than traps with odour alone, showing that despite their nocturnal habit, malaria vectors make use of visual cues in host-seeking. The best performing traps, however, combined odour and visual stimuli with a thermal signature in the range equivalent to human body temperature. When tested against a human landing catch during peak mosquito abundance, this "host decoy" trap caught nearly ten times the number of Anopheles mosquitoes caught by a human collector. Exploiting the behavioural responses of mosquitoes to the entire suite of host stimuli promises to revolutionise vector surveillance and provide new paradigms in disease control.
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Assunto principal:
Estimulação Luminosa
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Temperatura
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Controle de Mosquitos
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Mosquitos Vetores
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Malária
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Anopheles
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Odorantes
Tipo de estudo:
Screening_studies
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Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article