Mosquito host-feeding patterns and implications for Japanese encephalitis virus transmission in northern Australia and Papua New Guinea

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-411

  Van Den Hurk, A F ^a,e   Johansen, C A ^a   Zborowski, P ^a   Paru, R ^b   Foley, P N ^c   Beebe, N W ^d   Mackenzie, J S ^a   Ritchie, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c TROPICAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e Public Health Virology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Culex annulirostris; Host feeding pattern; Japanese encephalitis virus; Kangaroos; Light trap; Macropus agilis; Marsupials; Mosquitoes; Ochlerotatus normanensis; Papua New Guinea; Pigs; Sus scrofa; Torres strait; Wallabies

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST SELECTION; MOSQUITO; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MALE; MARSUPIAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CULEX; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SUS SCROFA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; WESTERN PROVINCE [PAPUA NEW GUINEA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; CULEX ANNULIROSTRIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS AGILIS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SUS; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 1842530305     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2003.00458.x     Document Type: Article

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