PMID: 2099254Jan 1, 1990Paper

Experimental infection index of Anopheles sinensis and melanization of periodic Brugia malayi larvae

Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases
H Luo, F Y Qu

Abstract

This paper deals with the infection index of Anopheles sinensis infected with the blood meals of 9 different microfilarial densities (5-300 mf/10 microliters) of periodic Brugia malayi. The results indicated that the mean number of microfilariae (mf) ingested by mosquitoes increased with the mf-density of the blood meal. The infection rates of vectors were 30, 65, 93 and 100%, when mf-densities were 5, 10, 20 and 50 mf/10 microliters respectively. Although the infection rate was 100% when mf-densities were larger than 50 (100, 150, 200, 250, 300) mf/10 microliters, the infection intensities were gradually increased from 17.2 to 51.4 and the host efficiencies were decreased from 0.4135 to 0.2328. The infection intensities and host efficiencies of low mf-densities (5, 10, 20, 50 mf/10 microliters) were 1.22-8.40 and 0.5669-0.6356 respectively. Under the condition of 27.5 +/- 0.5 degrees C, RH 75 +/- 5%, the developmental period from mf to third stage larva was 8 days and numerous infective larvae could be harvested when mf-density was 200 mf/10 microliters. The relationship between mf-density and host efficiency, number of melanized larvae and susceptibility of vector, experimental infection indices of Kartman and of Wharton were...Continue Reading

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