Detection of plasmodium falciparum infection in anopheles mosquitoes from Keonjhar district, Orissa, India.

The determination of the presence of malaria sporozoites in wild caught Anopheles mosquitoes remains an integral component in understanding the transmission dynamics in area-specific malaria epidemiological studies1. Mosquito infection rate, together with concurrent human-landing density data provide vulnerable parameters for estimating the intensity of transmission and entomological inoculation rates that serve as a relative measure of disease risk among exposed human populations2. Detection of advance stage sporozoites in mosquitoes also provides compelling evidence of incriminating a particular vector species3.