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Near Infrared Spectroscopy For Estimating The Age Of Malaria Transmitting Mosquitoes, Masabho Peter Milali
Near Infrared Spectroscopy For Estimating The Age Of Malaria Transmitting Mosquitoes, Masabho Peter Milali
Master's Theses (2009 -)
We explore the use of near infrared spectrometry to classifying the age of a wild malaria transmitting mosquito. In Chapter Two, using a different set of lab-reared mosquitoes, we replicate the Mayagaya et al. study of the accuracy of near-infrared spectrometry (NIRS) to estimate the age of lab-reared mosquitoes, reproducing the published accuracy. Our results strengthen the Mayagaya et. al study and increase confidence in using NIRS to estimate age classes of mosquitoes. In the field, we wish to classify the ages of wild, not lab-reared mosquitoes, but the necessary training data from wild mosquitoes is difficult to find. Applying …