Mosquito responses to carbon dioxide in a West African Sudan savanna village

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 220-227

  Costantini, Carlo ^a,b   Gibson, Gabriella ^a   Sagnon, N'Falé ^c   Della Torre, Alessandra ^b   Brady, John ^a   Coluzzi, Mario ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Ctr Natl Lutte Contre le Paludisme   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

An.funestus; An.gambiae; Anopheles arabiensis; Anpharoensis; Burkina Faso; carbon dioxide; Culex quinquefasciatus; host seeking behaviour; malaria vectors; Mansonia uniformis; odour baited traps; Sudan savanna; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MOSQUITO; ODOUR; TRAPPING;

BURKINA FASO, NOUNGOU;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES PHAROENSIS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; MANSONIA UNIFORMIS;

EID: 0030303665     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1996.tb00734.x     Document Type: Article

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