The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes
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- Subject Areas
- Ecology, Entomology, Epidemiology
- Keywords
- tent-trap, outdoor-biting, Tanzania, Ghana, malaria, transmission, vector, emerging disease, Mozambique.
- Copyright
- © 2017 Charlwood et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2017. The Furvela tent-trap Mk 1.1 for the collection of outdoor biting mosquitoes. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2892v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2892v1
Abstract
Outdoor transmission of malaria and other vector borne diseases remains a problem. Suitable methods for assessing vector density are required and a number of tent-traps, for the collection for outdoor biting mosquitoes, have recently been developed. Only one such trap, the Furvela tent-trap, does not require an ‘entry’ behavior on the part of the mosquito. It remains the cheapest and lightest tent-trap described. It takes less than two minutes to install and is the only trap described that uses readily available components. We also describe recent modifications to the trap, which make it even easier to set up, provide an SOP and describe some recent experiments examining the effect of the addition of light to the trap. We also provide a short review of work so far undertaken with the trap in Mozambique, Ghana and Tanzania. The trap provides the closest approximation to CDC light-traps, widely used to collect indoor biting mosquitoes. This enables the effect of a number of interventions on mosquito density and indoor/outdoor behaviors to be determined.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ for review.
Supplemental Information
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Furvela tent-trap Mk 1
Data when tents were used with and without addition of light and comparison between door position
Data when tents were used with and without addition of light and comparison between door position
Dataset from Kyamyorwa, Tanzania
Dataset from Kyamyorwa, Tanzania used for the comparison between window-trap and tent-trap collections 2015
Dataset of mosquitoes from Okyereko Ghana
Dataset from Okyereko, Ghana as used in Charlwood et al., 2011
Dataset used for the preparation of indoor outdoor ratios Kyamyorwa 2015
Dataset used for the preparation of indoor outdoor ratios Kyamyorwa 2015
Dataset of mosquitoes collected from Massavasse Mozambique
Dataset of mosquitoes collected from Massavasse Mozambique as used in Charlwood et al., 2013