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villages and one spot in each of 8 non-tribal areas
were selected for collection of mosquitoes. Ten human
habitations were fixed in each spot of both tribal and
non-tribal areas and indoor-resting mosquitoes were
captured between 0600hrs and 0800hrs for 12 minutes
from each habitation once in a week alternatively from
a tribal spot and a non-tribal spot following the
method of WHO (1975) and De and Chandra (1994).
Thus, in one year, a total of 48 man-hours were
employed each in tribal and non-tribal areas.
Man-landing mosquitoes were collected from
man-baits (human volunteers) from both indoors and
outdoors spending 24 hours in a day (from 0600hrs of
a day to 0600hrs of the following day) twice in a
month throughout the year from tribal and non-tribal
areas (in alternative week) following the method of
Service (1976) and Chandra and Hati (1993). So, 576
man-hours were employed in each location of indoor
and outdoor in each area.
Indoor-resting and man-landing mosquitoes were
identified (Christophers, 1933; Barraud, 1934; Hati,
1979;
Harbach, 1988) and dissected to detect any kind
of parasitic infection. Chi-square test (to compare
proportions), standard normal deviate ‘Z’ test (to
compare rates) and Student’s ‘t’ test (to compare
averages) were used for statistical analyses of the
available data (Zer, 1999).
Authors’ Contribution
G. Chandra designed the work and supervised overall and checked the
manuscript. S.K Rudra and M. Paramanik have done the full work and
wrote the manuscript with statistical analysis.
Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to The Department of Zoology of The University of
Burdwan for their support, providing research scope and laboratory facility.
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