MARK-RELEASE-RECAPTURE EXPERIMENTS TO ESTIMATE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE LIGHT TRAP IN COLLECTING JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VECTOR MOSQUITOES
Efficiency of the light trap in collecting females of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, the principal vector mosquito of Japanese encephalitis, was evaluated by mark-release-recapture experiments. Females collected with dry ice in the field were marked and released in a pigsty. The recapture rate of marked f...
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Published in | Japanese Journal of Medical Science and Biology Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 123 - 129 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Japan
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee
1995
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Summary: | Efficiency of the light trap in collecting females of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, the principal vector mosquito of Japanese encephalitis, was evaluated by mark-release-recapture experiments. Females collected with dry ice in the field were marked and released in a pigsty. The recapture rate of marked females by the light trap was so low as around 1% or lower. Owing to this low efficiency, it is not likely that the light trap can be a useful tool in the control of Japanese encephalitis. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0021-5112 1884-2828 |
DOI: | 10.7883/yoken1952.48.123 |