معرفي دستگاهي قابل حمل براي تغذيه ي مصنوعي ANOPHELES STEPHENSI

Since the earliest 20th century (the first use of artificial feeding technique) various apparatuses was made .This technique was used for arthropod rearing and also parasitological studies e.g. inoculation of parasites and study of their life cycle ,survey of various drugs on parasites etc. A new portable apparatus has desined with simple construction at the insectary of Public Health School of Tehran University of Medical Science. This apparatus was enabled to run a wide range of voltage such as automobile electricity in field. Attraction of Anopheles stephensi Tehran insectary strain to this apparatus with four kind of blood was evaluate the techniqueʹs efficiensy in comparison to natural blood feeding of Guinea pig which is an usual method. It was revealed that the greatest attraction for defibrinated sheep blood was (13 ± 3) that has no significant difference (Pvalue < 0.05) with natural blood feeding (13 ± 0.57) and the least a ttraction was with citrated sheep blood (9/33 ± 0133). This apparatus with defibrinated sheep blood may be considered as an alternative of natural blood feeding.