Tayseer Jibreel, Altayeb Khogali, Maribel Jiménez, Adeel Raiyed, Osman Dakein, Bashir Alsharif, Noteila M Khalid, Omran F Osman, Bakri Y M Nour, Gamal Hassan Mohamed, Ricardo Molina, Ana Vidal-López, Ramón Díaz-Regañón, Margriet den Boer, Jorge Alvar, Orin Courtenay, Dia-Eldin Elnaiem
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL, kala azar), caused by Leishmania donovani, transmitted by Phlebotomus orientalis, is a serious systemic disease that causes high morbidity and mortality rates in Sudan and other parts of East Africa and the world. Despite progress in understanding the epidemiology of the disease in East Africa, little is known about the host preference of P. orientalis in kala azar endemic villages of Sudan, which have some of the highest VL incidence rates in the world. The present study used host choice experiments and blood-meal identification approaches to determine the host preference of P...
August 4, 2023: Medical and Veterinary Entomology