Bed net efficacy depends on a number of factors, some of which are able to be influenced (eg education on proper use, regular maintenance and repair) and some which are inherent to a region (eg feeding characteristics of mosquito population), providing a source of variability when comparing the impact of the intervention between regions which appear to have the same overall net coverage.
Feeding on vertebrate blood is characteristic of mosquitoes of all genera, with few exceptions.
In fact, a single mutation has been attributed to misexpression of CO2 receptors in the maxillary palp; which is a normal characteristic in mosquitoes [61].
One special characteristic of mosquitoes is that they utilize two types of PMs, a type 1 PM lining the adult midgut that is blood-meal inducible and a type 2 PM lining the larval midgut and constitutively expressed during the whole larval feeding stage.
Demographic characteristics, exposure to mosquito bite and preventive measures used to avoid mosquito bites were also asked.
Conversely, the physical characteristics of the mosquito salivary duct may limit the number of sporozoites that can be inoculated during probing and feeding [29].
Characteristics of the mosquito population were described using proportions for categorical variables (e.g., infection status, serotype) and medians (interquartile ranges [IQR]) for continuous variables (e.g., number of mosquitoes per feeding, plasma viremia level).
The Chi-square test was used to test significance of the differences in abundance according to the characteristics of the mosquito collection site, vegetation type in proximity, and topographical characteristics of the village with a risk level according to the 2006 2007 epidemics.
Location and habitat characteristics of Aedes mosquitoes collected in Comoros islands.
