2024
DOI: 10.22271/23487941.2024.v11.i1a.737
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The implications for vector control of the feeding preference of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for different types of human blood and how it affects their fertility

Mydeen Sadik,
Ramakrishna Allam,
Antony Stephen Raj
et al.

Abstract: The aim of the present was to identify the preferential feeding of Ae. aegypti on human ABO blood groups and their impacts on fecundity. Methods: Laboratory reared female Ae. aegypti mosquitoes were exposed to all four blood groups at once in separate membrane feeders. After feeding, DNA of blood in mosquitoes was extracted and identified using ABO genotyping PCR. Fecundity was determined by the mean number of eggs in an egg batch. Results: Among 410 mosquitoes allowed for feeding, 200 individual females were … Show more

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