Mortality in Immatures of the Floodwater Mosquito Ochlerotatus albifasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) and Effects of Parasitism by Strelkovimermis spiculatus (Nematoda: Mermithidae) in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-208

  Campos, Raúl Ernesto ^a   Sy, Victoria Elena ^a  

^a Instituto de Limnologia Dr Raul A Ringuelet   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aedes albifasciatus; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Floodwater mosquito; Mortality; Ochlerotatus albifasciatus; Parasitism; Strelkovimermis spiculatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; LARVA; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PREVALENCE; SPRING; STRELKOVIMERMIS SPICULATUS; SUMMER; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE TABLE; MALE; MERMITHOIDEA; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON;

ANIMALIA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; MERMITHIDAE; NEMATODA; OCHLEROTATUS STICTICUS; STRELKOVIMERMIS;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; LARVA; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MERMITHOIDEA; POPULATION DENSITY; PUPA; SEASONS;

EID: 0037591078     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762003000200006     Document Type: Article

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