SynthesisMalaria journal2018
Using the human blood index to investigate host biting plasticity: a systematic review and meta-regression of the three major African malaria vectors.
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- Plasticity of blood feeding behavior of Anopheles mosquitoes in Ethiopia: a systematic review.Parasites & vectors · 2024Pooled it
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- Integrating zooprophylaxis, insecticide-treated livestock and mosquito nets for malaria control: a One Health proposal.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2026Review
- Host preference and resting behavior of Anopheles coluzzii (Diptera: Culicidae) on the island of São Tomé, West Africa.Journal of medical entomology · 2026Article
- Mosquito Feeding Preference, Infectivity Rates, and Knockdown Resistance Within the Wild Population ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Heterogeneous impacts for malaria control from larviciding across villages and considerations for monitoring and evaluation.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Human Blood Index ofJournal of tropical medicine · 2025Review
- The complexities of blood-feeding patterns in mosquitoes and sandflies and the burden of disease: A minireview.Veterinary medicine and science · 2024Review
- Blood meals from 'dead-end' vertebrate hosts enhance transmission potential of malaria-infected mosquitoes.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Widespread zoophagy and detection of Plasmodium spp. in Anopheles mosquitoes in southeastern Madagascar.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Host feeding patterns of Nyssorhynchus darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Brazilian Amazon.Acta tropica · 2021Article
- Blood Meal Sources ofInsects · 2020Article
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- Evidence of extrinsic factors dominating intrinsic blood host preferences of major African malaria vectors.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Anopheles mosquito surveillance in Madagascar reveals multiple blood feeding behavior and Plasmodium infection.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- Investigating the blood-host plasticity and dispersal of Anopheles coluzzii using a novel field-based methodology.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe proportion of mosquito blood-meals that are of human origin, referred to as the 'human blood index' or HBI, is a key determinant of malaria transmission.
methodsA systematic review was conducted followed by meta-regression of the HBI for the major African malaria vectors.
resultsEvidence is presented for higher HBI among Anopheles gambiae (M/S forms and Anopheles coluzzii/An. gambiae sensu stricto are not distinguished for most studies and, therefore, combined) as well as Anopheles funestus when compared with Anopheles arabiensis (prevalence odds ratio adjusted for collection location [i.e. indoor or outdoor]: 1.62; 95% CI 1.09-2.42; 1.84; 95% CI 1.35-2.52, respectively). This finding is in keeping with the entomological literature which describes An. arabiensis to be more zoophagic than the other major African vectors. However, analysis also revealed that HBI was more associated with location of mosquito captures (R
conclusionsThese findings call into question the appropriateness of current methods of assessing host preferences among disease vectors and have important implications for strategizing vector control.
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