| malaria vectors in angola: distribution of species and molecular forms of the anopheles gambiae complex, their pyrethroid insecticide knockdown resistance (kdr) status and plasmodium falciparum sporozoite rates. | malaria is by far the greatest cause of morbidity and mortality in angola, being responsible for 50% of all outpatient attendance and around 22% of all hospital deaths, yet by 2003 only 2% of under-5s used insecticide-treated nets. entomological studies are an essential foundation for rational malaria control using insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying, but there have been no published studies of malaria vectors in angola over the 27 years of the civil war, to its end in 2002. th ... | 2006 | 16420701 |
| chromosomal differentiation of anopheles funestus from luanda and huambo provinces, western and central angola. | the chromosomal polymorphism of anopheles funestus sensu stricto from angola was analyzed from indoor-resting samples collected in 11 peri-urban and rural sites of the luanda and huambo provinces, which are > 450 km apart and have distinct eco-climatic conditions. five polymorphic paracentric inversions were observed (scored chromatids range = 202 to 248): 2ra, 2rh, 3ra, 3rb, and 3la. inversions 3rb and 3la were highly polymorphic; the 2ra and 3ra arrangements were absent in luanda. no significa ... | 2005 | 16354814 |