Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region

BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in Linzhi Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but the vector for malaria transmission had never been identified. METHODS: Adult Anopheles spp. were collected in Motuo County, Linzhi Prefecture on the Sino-Indian border in July and August, 2007. Multiplex P...

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Autores principales: Song, Wu, Jia-Yun, Pan, Xue-Zhong, Wang, Shui-Sen, Zhou, Guo-Qing, Zhang, Qian, Liu, Lin-Hua, Tang
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19291287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-46
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author Song, Wu
Jia-Yun, Pan
Xue-Zhong, Wang
Shui-Sen, Zhou
Guo-Qing, Zhang
Qian, Liu
Lin-Hua, Tang
author_facet Song, Wu
Jia-Yun, Pan
Xue-Zhong, Wang
Shui-Sen, Zhou
Guo-Qing, Zhang
Qian, Liu
Lin-Hua, Tang
author_sort Song, Wu
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description BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in Linzhi Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but the vector for malaria transmission had never been identified. METHODS: Adult Anopheles spp. were collected in Motuo County, Linzhi Prefecture on the Sino-Indian border in July and August, 2007. Multiplex PCR was adopted for species identification, and a nested PCR approach was used to detect sporozoites in the salivary glands of the mosquitoes. RESULTS: 3,675 mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculatus group were collected and processed for species identification. Among them, 3,602 (98.0%) were Anopheles pseudowillmori and 73 (2.0%) were Anopheles willmori. The Plasmodium vivax SSUrDNA fragment was amplified in two of 360 pooled An. pseudowillmori samples. CONCLUSION: The local An. maculatus group comprises the species An. pseudowillmori and An. willmori. Anopheles pseudowillmori is considered the sole malaria vector in Motuo County in Linzhi Prefecture.
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spelling pubmed-26628682009-03-31 Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region Song, Wu Jia-Yun, Pan Xue-Zhong, Wang Shui-Sen, Zhou Guo-Qing, Zhang Qian, Liu Lin-Hua, Tang Malar J Research BACKGROUND: Malaria is endemic in Linzhi Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), but the vector for malaria transmission had never been identified. METHODS: Adult Anopheles spp. were collected in Motuo County, Linzhi Prefecture on the Sino-Indian border in July and August, 2007. Multiplex PCR was adopted for species identification, and a nested PCR approach was used to detect sporozoites in the salivary glands of the mosquitoes. RESULTS: 3,675 mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculatus group were collected and processed for species identification. Among them, 3,602 (98.0%) were Anopheles pseudowillmori and 73 (2.0%) were Anopheles willmori. The Plasmodium vivax SSUrDNA fragment was amplified in two of 360 pooled An. pseudowillmori samples. CONCLUSION: The local An. maculatus group comprises the species An. pseudowillmori and An. willmori. Anopheles pseudowillmori is considered the sole malaria vector in Motuo County in Linzhi Prefecture. BioMed Central 2009-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2662868/ /pubmed/19291287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-46 Text en Copyright © 2009 Song et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research
Song, Wu
Jia-Yun, Pan
Xue-Zhong, Wang
Shui-Sen, Zhou
Guo-Qing, Zhang
Qian, Liu
Lin-Hua, Tang
Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title_full Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title_fullStr Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title_full_unstemmed Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title_short Anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in Motuo County, Tibet Autonomous Region
title_sort anopheles pseudowillmori is the predominant malaria vector in motuo county, tibet autonomous region
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19291287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-46
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