Frequent Blood-Feeding and Restrictive Sugar-Feeding Behavior Enhance the Malaria Vector Potential of Anopheles gambiae s.l. and An. funestus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Western Kenya

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 613-618

  Beier, John C ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; Anopheles gambiae; Blood feeding; Malaria parasite transmission; Sugar feeding

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

FRUCTOSE;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0030187285     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/33.4.613     Document Type: Article

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