Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) attracted to humans and water buffalos and natural infections with filarial larvae, probably Onchocerca sp., in northern Thailand

Parasite

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-8

  Takaoka, H ^a   Choochote, W ^b   Aoki, C ^a   Fukuda, M ^a   Bain, O ^c  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Black fly; Filaria; Natural infection; Onchocerca; Simuliidae; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILARIA; FLY; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA SUZUKI; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM ASAKOAE; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM NAKHONENSE; SIMULIUM NIGROGILVUM; SIMULIUM NODOSUM; THAILAND; ANIMAL; BUFFALO; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BOVIDAE; BUBALUS; BUBALUS BUBALIS; DIPTERA; FILARIA; LATEOLABRAX JAPONICUS; ONCHOCERCA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM DAMNOSUM; SIMULIUM FENESTRATUM; SIMULIUM NAKHONENSE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM NIGROGILVUM; SIMULIUM NODOSUM;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MICROFILARIA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE; THAILAND;

EID: 0038312108     PISSN: 1252607X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2003101p3     Document Type: Article

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