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The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes
Outdoor transmission of malaria and other vector borne diseases remains a problem. The WHO has recently recognized the need for suitable methods for assessing vector density outdoors and a number of tent-traps have been developed. Only one such trap, the Furvela tent-trap, does not require an ‘entry...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158961 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3848 |
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author | Charlwood, Jacques D. Rowland, Mark Protopopoff, Natacha Le Clair, Corey |
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description | Outdoor transmission of malaria and other vector borne diseases remains a problem. The WHO has recently recognized the need for suitable methods for assessing vector density outdoors and a number of tent-traps have been developed. Only one such trap, the Furvela tent-trap, does not require an ‘entry’ behavior on the part of the mosquito. It remains the cheapest and lightest tent-trap described. It takes less than two minutes to install and is the only trap that uses readily available components. Here we describe recent modifications to the trap, which make it even easier to set up in the field, provide a standard operating procedure (SOP) and describe some recent experiments examining the effect of the addition of light and door placement to working of the trap. The trap provides the closest approximation to CDC light-traps, widely used to collect indoor biting mosquitoes. This enables the effect of both indoor and outdoor interventions on mosquito density and behavior to be determined. |
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spelling | pubmed-56942122017-11-20 The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes Charlwood, Jacques D. Rowland, Mark Protopopoff, Natacha Le Clair, Corey PeerJ Ecology Outdoor transmission of malaria and other vector borne diseases remains a problem. The WHO has recently recognized the need for suitable methods for assessing vector density outdoors and a number of tent-traps have been developed. Only one such trap, the Furvela tent-trap, does not require an ‘entry’ behavior on the part of the mosquito. It remains the cheapest and lightest tent-trap described. It takes less than two minutes to install and is the only trap that uses readily available components. Here we describe recent modifications to the trap, which make it even easier to set up in the field, provide a standard operating procedure (SOP) and describe some recent experiments examining the effect of the addition of light and door placement to working of the trap. The trap provides the closest approximation to CDC light-traps, widely used to collect indoor biting mosquitoes. This enables the effect of both indoor and outdoor interventions on mosquito density and behavior to be determined. PeerJ Inc. 2017-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5694212/ /pubmed/29158961 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3848 Text en ©2017 Charlwood et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Ecology Charlwood, Jacques D. Rowland, Mark Protopopoff, Natacha Le Clair, Corey The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title | The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title_full | The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title_fullStr | The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title_full_unstemmed | The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title_short | The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
title_sort | furvela tent-trap mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes |
topic | Ecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158961 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3848 |
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