Optimised dietary regimens for the laboratory maintenance of Phlebotomus langeroni Nitzulescu (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 615-620

  Kassem, H A ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EGG; EGYPT; FEEDING; FERTILITY; HATCHING; LABORATORY; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; DIET; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; OVIPOSITION; PHLEBOTOMUS; REPRODUCTION; SUCROSE;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PHLEBOTOMUS LANGERONI; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0031904666     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989859311     Document Type: Article

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