Monitoring larval populations of 'Aedes aegypti' in different residential districts of Jeddah governorate, Saudi Arabia

Title
Monitoring larval populations of 'Aedes aegypti' in different residential districts of Jeddah governorate, Saudi Arabia
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Al-Ghamdi, Khalid
Al-Azab, Abbas
Khormi, Hassan
Kumar, Lalit
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-756X
Email: lkumar@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lkumar
Mahyoub, Jazem
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
World Food RD Ltd
Place of publication
Finland
UNE publication id
une:17156
Abstract
House-to-house surveys of larval population of 'Aedes aegypti' were conducted to determine the importance of house index for each habitat in Jeddah governorate. In this study, we aimed to survey and monitor mosquito population and potential breeding sites by using House index (HI), Container index (CI), and Breteau index (BI). The statistical analysis showed that the presence of larval stages of 'Ae. aegypti' reported throughout the year inside houses in the studied locations (Ghuleel, Al-Balad, Al-Jameiah, Al-Nazlah Al-Yamaneyyah, and Al-Safa) with some significant differences among investigated areas showed that Ghuleel had highest and Al-Safa lowest in density of larvae, respectively. House indices of each study area compared with the highest ratio of standard WHO (5-10%) were as follows: 8.7, 7.6, 6.6, 6.22 and 4%, respectively, for the above sites (P<0.05). The results showed that there were significant differences among types of containers of water in the inspected houses. Large containers were most significant compared with medium and small containers. Container index (CI) was 12% (Ghuleel), 13% (Al-Balad) and 14% (Al-Jameiah), 12% (Al-Nazlah Al- Yamaneyyah) and 9% (Al-Safa), whereas Breteau index (BI) was 8, 6.6, 4.7, 4.5 and 1.43%, respectively. Significant increase in the density of larvae was found in November, March, June and January due to the effect of the environmental factors including temperature and humidity.
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Citation
Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment, 12(3&4), p. 448-452
ISSN
1459-0263
1459-0255
Start page
448
End page
452

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