Seasonal and nocturnal domiciliary human landing/biting behaviour of Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) evansi and Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) panamensis (Diptera; Psychodidae) in a periurban area of a city on the Caribbean coast of eastern Venezuela (Barcelona; Anzoategui State)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-364

  Gonzalez R ^a,c   De Sousa, L ^b   Devera, R ^a   Jorquera, A ^b   Ledezma, E ^b  

^a Universidad de Oriente Nucleo Bolivar   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^c NONE   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bionomics; Landing biting activity; Lutzomyia evansi; Phlebotomine sandflies; Vectors; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; INSECT BITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PSYCHODIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VENEZUELA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

LUTZOMYIA EVANSI; LUTZOMYIA PANAMENSIS;

EID: 0032838991     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90115-3     Document Type: Article

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