STUDIES ON QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF TRANSMISSION OF WUCHERERIA-BANCROFTI

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 27  (2) , 160-164
Abstract
Feeding experiments with Anopheles gambiae and Culex fatigans infected with W. bancrofti showed that the mosquito females lost about 20% of their worm burden when feeding on a blood chamber as well as on the guinea pig. Of all mature larvae found in the mosquitoes, 6.6% succeeded in entering the final host. A strikingly high infection rate was observed in mosquitoes refusing to feed on a guinea pig. These mosquitoes must be considered when the loss of filarial larvae is calculated. Very few larvae of W. bancrofti get lost when the mosquitoes feed only on sugar water solution.

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