anopheles dirus and its role in malaria transmission in myanmar. | anopheles dirus is one of the primary vectors of highly drug-resistant plasmodium falciparum, which causes cerebral malaria resulting in high mortality. mosquito collections were conducted in a forest wood-extraction area (bago division), an irrigated plain area near foothills (mandalay division), a coastal plain (from domestic wells in the mudon area, mon state) near the foothill area, as well as a hilly area (deep forest timber extraction camp, tanintharyi division) from may 1998 to march 2000 ... | 2003 | 14714666 |
hyperendemic malaria in a forested, hilly myanmar village. | a 1-year longitudinal study of hyperendemic malaria was carried out at tha-bye-wa village, oktwin township, situated in the forested bago mountain range in south-central myanmar. mosquito infectivity was assayed using specific, sporozoite enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. anopheles dirus was the predominant vector in the postmonsoon season (october); during the cool-dry season (january), both an. dirus and anopheles minimus were vectors. members of the anopheles culicifacies complex were caugh ... | 1995 | 8825497 |