title: Identification of bloodmeals of phlebotomine sandflies using the agarose gel diffusion method.
abstract: The source of blood meal of wild caught Phlebotomid sandflies collected in areas around Pondicherry was identified using an agarose gel diffusion method. A total of 497 blood samples obtained from freshly engorged Phlebotomid sandflies were tested. Of these 66.8% were positive to human antisera, 29.2% to bovine antisera and the remaining 4.0% to avain antisera. The human blood indices of P. papatasi and P. argentipes were 0.91 and 0.04, respectively.
authors: Vector Control Research Center (ICMR), Indira Nagar, Pondicherry, India.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Srinivasan
authors: K N
authors: KN
authors: Panicker
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D001769:Blood; D002417:Cattle; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D005779:Immunodiffusion; D007194:India; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000502:physiology*; D010691:Phlebotomus / Q000502:physiology*