Nature Communications (Mar 2022)
Rapid age-grading and species identification of natural mosquitoes for malaria surveillance
- Doreen J. Siria,
- Roger Sanou,
- Joshua Mitton,
- Emmanuel P. Mwanga,
- Abdoulaye Niang,
- Issiaka Sare,
- Paul C. D. Johnson,
- Geraldine M. Foster,
- Adrien M. G. Belem,
- Klaas Wynne,
- Roderick Murray-Smith,
- Heather M. Ferguson,
- Mario González-Jiménez,
- Simon A. Babayan,
- Abdoulaye Diabaté,
- Fredros O. Okumu,
- Francesco Baldini
Affiliations
- Doreen J. Siria
- Environmental Health & Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute
- Roger Sanou
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)/Centre Muraz
- Joshua Mitton
- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
- Emmanuel P. Mwanga
- Environmental Health & Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute
- Abdoulaye Niang
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)/Centre Muraz
- Issiaka Sare
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)/Centre Muraz
- Paul C. D. Johnson
- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
- Geraldine M. Foster
- Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Adrien M. G. Belem
- Université Nazi Boni de Bobo-Dioulasso
- Klaas Wynne
- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow
- Roderick Murray-Smith
- School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
- Heather M. Ferguson
- Environmental Health & Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute
- Mario González-Jiménez
- School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow
- Simon A. Babayan
- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
- Abdoulaye Diabaté
- Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS)/Centre Muraz
- Fredros O. Okumu
- Environmental Health & Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute
- Francesco Baldini
- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28980-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Knowing the age of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes is important to understand transmission risk as only old mosquitoes can transmit the disease. Here, the authors develop a method based on mid-infrared spectra of mosquito cuticle that can rapidly identify the species and age class of main malaria vectors.
