Environment
The mosquito catchers
Scientists go door to door to bring the pests in, PCR test tells them which ones are dangerous
Anopheles
A annularis
A philippinensis
A pallidus.
rmrc
pcr)
| Positive ID | ||
| Step 1 Sucking tubes were used to collect mosquitoes. One end of the tube was placed over the mosquito on the wall while it was sucked in through the other end | ||
Step 3 Different parts of a dissected mosquito were collected a - the saliva for the Plasmodium parasite b - the stomach for human blood c - the mosquito's own DNA sample | ||
| Step 4 The samples were analyzed by the multiplex PCR device. The results confirmed if the mosquito had fed on a human and if it carried the disease | ||
| ILLUSTRATIONS DIVYA | ||
pcr
dna
dna
Plasmodium falciparum
dna,
dna
pcr
rmrc
A annularis
P falciparum
A philippinensis
A pallidus
A philippinensis
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
pcr