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Climatic Factors and Mosquito Species in Rural and Urban Areas at Kantharom District, Srisaket Province

Students: Jirasak Chaichana, Panida Promson, Patamaporn Singhansaree, Athit Reangthogn, Surapon Noonsung, and students from M5/2T h S t i t K i K t h l K t Di t i t S i k t 33130 k thTeacher: Satapisat Kraisee, Kantararom school, Kantararom District, Srisaket 33130, www.kr.ac.thScientists: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krisanadej Jaroensutasinee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mullica Jaroensutasinee, Siriwan Wongkoon, Walailak University

ContentsContents11 IntroductionIntroduction

22 Research questionResearch question

33 Materials and MethodsMaterials and Methods

44 Results and DiscussionResults and Discussion

55 AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements55 AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

IntroductionIntroductionIntroductionIntroduction

K h l i l d l i d 15 1036 N d l i d• Kantararom school is located at latitude 15.1036 °N and longitude104.57538 °E, Kantararom district, Srisaket. Kantararom district is located on the sandy silt plateau and has several small ponds with 100,157 populations, 2,636 households, population density in urban area of 141 individuals/km2 and in rural area of 9 individuals/km2.


• There were 330 dengue incidence with a deathincidence with a death rate of 0.30 at Sisaket in 2008

• Since 1st January -31th July 2010, there were 1,200 dengue incidences which was ranked fourth dengue incidence rate indengue incidence rate in northeastern region. (Ministry of Health: online 2010).


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DDo mosquito number and species in urban and ruralspecies in urban and rural areas at Kantararom district differ? If yes, how do theydiffer? If yes, how do they differ?AAre there some differencesAAre there some differences between climatic factors and the number of mosquito larvae innumber of mosquito larvae in urban and rural areas at Kantharom District, SrisaketProvince?

Materials and MethodsMaterials and MethodsMaterials and MethodsMaterials and Methods

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yWe selected urban and rural areas at Kantararom district, Srisaket into 53 study sites: 10 urban sites and 43 rural sites (Fig. 1a,b).

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d d lAedes spp. and Culex spp. For Aedes, there were Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus .aegypti and Aedes albopictus .AAt rural areat rural area, there were three genus of mosquitoes: g qAedes spp., Culex spp. and Anopheles spp. This indicates that rural areas might be morethat rural areas might be more malaria risk than urban area.


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Figure 6. The number of dengue fever patients at urban ( ) and at rural ( )areas during May 2009 to October 2010.


Figure 7. a) The relationship of the number of rainy days d h b f A i l

b) The relationship of the number of rainy days d th b f d i idand the number of Ae. aegypti larvae. and the number of dengue incidences.

As the number of rainy days increased, the number of Ae. aegypti and the number of dengue incidences increased (Figure 7a,b). This strongly indicated that climatic factors (in this case, the number of rainy days) strongly influences the number of mosquito larvae. The increases in the number of mosquito larvae will increase the chance of dengue vectors to transmit the dengue virus at a higher rate. Moreover, during rainy days, people tend to stay inside their houses which may also increase the chance of being bitten by Ae. aegypti females. As we already know that Ae. aegypti tends to stay inside the house and lays their eggs in the indoor water containers.

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A k l d tA k l d tAcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

ThisThis work is supported in part by GLOBE through Mosquito project, IPST and GLOBE southernMosquito project, IPST and GLOBE southern network. We thank Assoc. Prof. Dr. KrisanadejJaroensutasinee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. MullicaJaroensutasinee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mullica Jaroensutasinee, Siriwan Wongkoon for some suggestions on experimental design and datasuggestions on experimental design and data analysis. We thank the director of Kantararomschool, Mr. Rita Nantapan for supporting thisschool, Mr. Rita Nantapan for supporting this project.

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