Research Article

Detection of Leishmania DNA in Phlebotomine Sand Flies in Tsatee, a Community in the Volta Region, Ghana

Table 1

Distribution of sand flies trapped using CDC light trap and hand aspirator.

Trapping methodsNBF femalesBF femalesMalesTotal (%)

CDC light trap2192209943,206 (70%)
Aspirator1129372081,374 (30%)
Total33215712024,580

NBF: non-blood-fed female sand flies; BF: blood-fed female sand flies.