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Identification of bloodmeals of phlebotomine sandflies using the agarose gel diffusion method
1Vector Control Research Center (ICMR), Indira Nagar, Pondicherry, India.
The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health
|September 1, 1992
Abstract:
The source of blood meal of wild caught Phlebotomid sandflies collected in areas around Pondicherry was identified using an agarose gel diffusion method. A total of 497 blood samples obtained from freshly engorged Phlebotomid sandflies were tested. Of these 66.8% were positive to human antisera, 29.2% to bovine antisera and the remaining 4.0% to avain antisera. The human blood indices of P. papatasi and P. argentipes were 0.91 and 0.04, respectively.