Molecular Characterization Reveals Diverse and Unknown Malaria Vectors in the Western Kenyan Highlands.

ABSTRACT: The success of mosquito-based malaria control is dependent upon susceptible bionomic traits in local malaria vectors. It is crucial to have accurate and reliable methods to determine mosquito species composition in areas subject to malaria. An unexpectedly diverse set of Anopheles species was collected in the western Kenyan highlands, including unidentified and potentially new species carrying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. This study identified 2,340 anopheline specimens using both ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region 2 and mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 loci. Seventeen distinct sequence groups were identified. Of these, only eight could be molecularly identified through comparison to published and voucher sequences. Of the unidentified species, fo

SUBMITTER: St Laurent B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4751935 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature