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6524821

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-3-8
pubmed:abstractText
The dispersal of Phlebotomus ariasi was studied in mark-release-recapture experiments in the summer of 1980 in a valley on the north-eastern slopes of the Oiselette range in the Cévennes mountains, in the commune of Roquedur, Gard, 50 km north of Montpellier, France. More than 5,000 specimens of P. ariasi were marked with fluorescent powders and released in 9 batches at 3 different places. Seven batches were engorged females and two were unengorged females and males. From 1-29 days after release, 497 marked sandflies (approximately 9%) were recaptured by active searches with UV lamps or in 58 CDC light traps set up in groups of 4 or 5 at 12 recapture stations. Females released engorged generally remained within 250 m of the release point for the first eight days while the bloodmeal was being digested after which there was a tendency to disperse to distances greater than 350 m presumably in a search for oviposition sites or another bloodmeal. The furthest distance to which a female released engorged was shown to move was 925 m; it was caught 12 days after release. Some of the females released unfed quickly moved away from release points, sometimes to distances of 1,000 m or more. One of these was caught 68.5 hrs after release at a station 2,200 m from the release point. Male sandflies tended to stay near the point of release and were not recaptured at distances greater than 600 m. There was no evidence that the movement of the sandflies was assisted by wind. Observations on the dispersal of female sandflies confirm that leishmaniasis can be more widely spread than generally assumed by the movements of the vector.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0003-4150
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
59
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
N
pubmed:pagination
555-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Ecology of leishmaniasis in the south of France. 20. Dispersal of Phlebotomus ariasi Tonnoir, 1921 as a factor in the spread of visceral leishmaniasis in the Cévennes.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't