Designing and Introducing a New Artificial Feeding Apparatus for Sand Fly Rearing

BACKGROUND: Due to strict ethical rules, the risk of accidental disease transmission and the most importantly, inconvenience regarding using of live animals, artificial feeding apparatus has been developed for colonization of haematophagous insects. Rearing of sandfly is more difficult than other ha...

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Autores principales: Fatemi, Mahboubeh, Saeidi, Zahra, Noruzian, Parviz, Akhavan, Amir Ahmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30915374
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author Fatemi, Mahboubeh
Saeidi, Zahra
Noruzian, Parviz
Akhavan, Amir Ahmad
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description BACKGROUND: Due to strict ethical rules, the risk of accidental disease transmission and the most importantly, inconvenience regarding using of live animals, artificial feeding apparatus has been developed for colonization of haematophagous insects. Rearing of sandfly is more difficult than other haematophagous insects. METHODS: In the current study, a new apparatus for membrane feeding of Phlebotomus papatasi was designed, made and compared with available apparatus in Sand Fly Insectary, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. RESULTS: In comparison to other apparatus designed for artificial feeding of other arthropods, our designed apparatus had the highest performance which after up to 1h, the majority of sand flies landed and took blood and among tested membranes, chicken skin was proved the most efficient membrane. CONCLUSION: Sand fly artificial feeding apparatus can be used at least for rearing of Ph. papatasi.
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spelling pubmed-64234552019-03-26 Designing and Introducing a New Artificial Feeding Apparatus for Sand Fly Rearing Fatemi, Mahboubeh Saeidi, Zahra Noruzian, Parviz Akhavan, Amir Ahmad J Arthropod Borne Dis Short Communication BACKGROUND: Due to strict ethical rules, the risk of accidental disease transmission and the most importantly, inconvenience regarding using of live animals, artificial feeding apparatus has been developed for colonization of haematophagous insects. Rearing of sandfly is more difficult than other haematophagous insects. METHODS: In the current study, a new apparatus for membrane feeding of Phlebotomus papatasi was designed, made and compared with available apparatus in Sand Fly Insectary, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. RESULTS: In comparison to other apparatus designed for artificial feeding of other arthropods, our designed apparatus had the highest performance which after up to 1h, the majority of sand flies landed and took blood and among tested membranes, chicken skin was proved the most efficient membrane. CONCLUSION: Sand fly artificial feeding apparatus can be used at least for rearing of Ph. papatasi. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6423455/ /pubmed/30915374 Text en Copyright© Iranian Society of Medical Entomology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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