Effect of different habitat types on abundance and biting times of Anopheles balabacensis Baisas (Diptera: Culicidae) in Kudat district of Sabah, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Tock Hing Chua, Benny O. Manin, Indra Vythilingam, Kimberly Fornace, Chris J. Drakeley
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: BioMed Central 2019
• Subjects: QL360-599.82 Invertebrates
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33990/1/Effect%20of%20different%20habitat%20types%20on%20abundance%20and%20biting%20times%20of%20Anopheles%20balabacensis%20Baisas%20%28Diptera%2C%20Culicidae%29%20in%20Kudat%20district%20of%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia.ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33990/2/Effect%20of%20different%20habitat%20types%20on%20abundance%20and%20biting%20times%20of%20Anopheles%20balabacensis%20Baisas%20%28Diptera%2C%20Culicidae%29%20in%20Kudat%20district%20of%20Sabah%2C%20Malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33990/; https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3627-0; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3627-0
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

We investigated the effect of five common habitat types on the diversity and abundance of Anopheles spp. and on the biting rate and time of Anopheles balabacensis (currently the only known vector for Plasmodium knowlesi in Sabah) at Paradason village, Kudat, Sabah. The habitats were forest edge, pla...