Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia.
Parasit Vectors. 2013 Mar 28;6:81. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-81.
Anopheles cracens has been incriminated as a vector for the simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, that is the fifth Plasmodium species infecting humans. Little experimental data exists on this mosquito species due to the lack of its availability in laboratories.
The population of An. cracens, collected from Kuala Lipis, Pahang was maintained at the insectary of the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya at 24-26°C and 60-80% relative humidity. The mosquitoes were maintained with artificial mating and blood-fed on humans and hamsters. The colony has been established since November 2011 and to date has reached its sixth generation.
This is the first description of maintaining the Malaysian strain An. cracens colony by artificial mating. Colonization of An. cracens will provide fundamental information for genetic studies and will be useful in assessing comparative susceptibility to Plasmodium parasites.
刺扰伊蚊已被指认为感染灵长类疟原虫，即第五种感染人类的疟原虫的病媒。由于实验室缺乏该蚊子，因此有关这种蚊子的实验数据很少。
从彭亨州关丹Lipis 采集的刺扰伊蚊种群在马来亚大学医学院寄生虫学系的昆虫饲养室中以 24-26°C 和 60-80%的相对湿度维持。蚊子通过人工交配繁殖，并以人类和仓鼠为食。该蚊群自 2011 年 11 月建立以来，已经繁衍到了第六代。
这是首次描述通过人工交配来维持马来西亚刺扰伊蚊种群。刺扰伊蚊的定殖将为遗传研究提供基本信息，并有助于评估对疟原虫寄生虫的比较易感性。
