Biting behaviour and potential vector status of anthropophilic blackflies in a new focus of human onchocerciasis at Minaçu, central Brazil

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 28-39

  Shelley, A J ^a   Maia Herzog, M ^b   Luna Dias, A P A ^b   Camargo, M ^c   Costa, E G ^c   Garritano, P ^b   Lowry, C A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c FUNDAÇÃO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biting habits; Brazil; Onchocerciasis; Rivers; S. guianense; S. minusculum; S. nigrimanum; Simuliidae; Simulium auripellitum; Vectors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FLY; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DIPTERA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; INSECTA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIDAE; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM AURIPELLITUM; SIMULIUM GUIANENSE; SIMULIUM MINUSCULUM;

EID: 0035093860     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2915.2001.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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