Affiliations: [a] Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia | [b] Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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Corresponding author: A. Ahdika, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. E-mail:[email protected]
Abstract: This research study mainly aims to find the best method
in breeding mosquitoes in laboratory and compared alternative blood feeding
strategy using artificial membrane feeding which is given by human blood and
three other anticoagulants. A probabilistic modeling of the pre-adult
mosquito's growth based on each strategy was compared and discussed using
the statistical model classifying the mosquitoes into their life phases;
eggs, larvae, pupae, and mosquito, then computing the transition probability
and survival probability in each phase at any time. The result shows that
Positive Control and Heparin gave the highest probability to transform from
eggs to larvae in about third day, with probability between 0.3 to 0.36 and
from larvae to pupae in about sixth day, with probability between 0.25 to
0.3. While the others anticoagulants took a longer day to transform in each
phase. Therefore, Heparin is the best alternative anticoagulant for
mosquito's blood feeding.
