Protocol: Use of sugar bait FTA card stations

04 May 2020
Mojca Kristan, Tom Walker and Matt Rogers

GN_20: Protocol for use of sugar bait FTA card stations

Protocol for use of sugar bait FTA card stations. Describes sugar bait FTA card station design created at LSHTM, and how to use these stations with a potential to monitor leishmaniasis transmission in an area.

Protocol from the Gnatwork project “The use of FTA cards to monitor Leishmania infection and infectiousness in sand flies and midges“ created for field work in Ethiopia and Ghana (summer 2019).

Sandfly Culicoides biting midges Molecular Fieldwork FTA