title: Comparison of capture methods for the diagnosis of adult anopheline populations from State of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The present study compares human landing catches of primary malaria vectors with two alternative methods of capture: the Shannon trap and the Mosquito magnet.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used regression models to adjust capture data to a negative binominal distribution.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Capture numbers and relative percentages obtained from the three methods vary strongly between species. The highest overall captures were obtained for Anopheles triannulatus with captures for the Shannon trap and the Mosquito magnet measuring more than 330% higher than captures obtained by human landings. For Anopheles darlingi, captures by the Shannon trap and the Mosquito magnet were about 14% and 26% of human landing catches, respectively. Another species with malaria transmission potential that was not sampled by human landing captures weascaptured by the Shannon trap and the Mosquito magnet (Anopheles oswaldoi). Both alternative sampling techniques can predict the human landing of Anopheles triannulatus, but without proportionality. Models for Anopheles darlingi counts, after totaling daily captures, are significant and proportional, but prediction models are more reliable when using the Shannon trap compared with the Mosquito magnet captures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These alternative capture methods can be partially recommended for the substitution of human landing captures or, at least, as complementary forms of monitoring for malarial mosquitoes.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, MT, Brasil.
authors.forename: Nanci Akemi
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Missawa
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia Maria
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Giovana Belem Moreira Lima
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Maciel
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zeilhofer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000852:Anopheles / Q000145:classification*; D001938:Brazil; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000145:classification*; D016014:Linear Models; D008288:Malaria / Q000635:transmission; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000379:methods; D011156:Population Density