title: Biting periodicity index of Culex quinquefasciatus & its relationship with microfilaria periodicity in Pondicherry.
abstract: The biting periodicity index of the bancroftian filariasis vector, C. quinquefasciatus, was calculated on the basis of a large longitudinal data base and compared with the periodicity index of microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti. The biting periodicity index of the vector population was 29.78 and found to be close to the periodicity index of the microfilariae. The peak biting activity of the vector and peak appearance of microfilariae in the peripheral blood occurred at about 01.00 h, which accounts for the optimum infection of the vector population. The early night biting density of the vector population showed a highly significant (P less than 0.0005) linear relationship with all night biting density.
authors.affiliation: Vector Control Research Centre, Pondicherry.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vanamail
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Ramaiah
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003465:Culex; D004605:Elephantiasis, Filarial / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007303:Insect Vectors; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D014958:Wuchereria bancrofti