EFFECT OF DIFFERENT BLOOD SOURCES ON THE FEEDING TIME OF SAND FLY, PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Article 10, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 555-558 PDF (223.12 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96292 | ||
| Authors | ||
| NOURA HEIKAL ROBY1; MOHAMED A. HUSSEIN2; SAID A. M. DOHA1; SANAA ABDEL SATTAR ABDEL GHANY1 | ||
| 1Research and Training Center on Vectors of Diseases, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt. | ||
| 2Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The feeding time for sand fly females was determined experimentally by feeding of thirty females (3-5 days-old) sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi on different blood sources (human, pigeon, hamster and blab C mice). Mean feeding time was longest on blab C mice, 8.55 minutes, followed by hamster, 7.05 minutes, then pigeon, 4.84minutes, and finally human, 4.69 minutes. Significant difference was observed in the feeding time between females fed on hamster and balb c mice but there is no significant difference between females fed on human and pigeon. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Egypt; Phlebotomus papatasi; phlebotominae; different blood-source; feeding time | ||
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