A role for Mansonia uniformis mosquitoes in the transmission of lymphatic filariasis in Uganda?

Acta Tropica

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-168

  Onapa, Ambrose W ^a   Pedersen, Erling M ^b   Reimert, Claus M ^b   Simonsen, Paul E ^b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Lymphatic filariasis; Mansonia uniformis; Transmission; Uganda; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FILARIASIS; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOSQUITO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSECT BITE; LARVA; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); MIGRATION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; THORAX; UGANDA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULICIDAE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MICROFILARIA; UGANDA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; MANSONIA UNIFORMIS; MERMITHIDA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 33847658853     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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