Comparison of field-based xenodiagnosis and direct membrane feeding assays for evaluating host infectiousness to malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Acta Tropica

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 131-139

  Gouagna, Louis Clément ^a,d   Yao, Frank ^b   Yameogo, Bienvenue ^b   Dabiré, Roch K ^b,c   Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco ^b,c  

^a Centre de Recherche et de Veille sur les Maladies Emergentes dans l'Océan Indien CRVOI Sainte Clotilde   (Reunion)

^b Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^c CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Anopheles spp.; Gametocytes; Host infectiousness; Malaria transmission; Membrane feeding; Oocysts; Plasmodium falciparum; Xenodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST; INFECTIVITY; MALARIA; MEMBRANE; MOSQUITO;

ADULT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIRECT MEMBRANE FEEDING ASSAY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GAMETOCYTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROSCOPY; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; WILD SPECIES; XENODIAGNOSIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

BURKINA FASO;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BURKINA FASO; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREVALENCE; XENODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84889676075     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.10.022     Document Type: Article

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