Vector competence for Onchocerca volvulus in the Simulium (Notolepria) exiguum complex: Cytoforms or density-dependence?

Acta Tropica

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-68

  Wetten, Sally ^a   Collins, Richard C ^b   Vieira, Juan Carlos ^c   Marshall, Clare ^a   Shelley, Anthony J ^d   Basáñez, María Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HCJB ^*  (United States)

^c HCJB   (Ecuador)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aguarico; Bucay; Cayapa; Colombia; Cytoforms; Density dependence; Ecuador; Onchocerca volvulus; Quevedo; Simulium exiguum s.l.; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; INFECTION CONTROL; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE VECTOR; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM EXIGUUM; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LARVA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SIMULIIDAE; SKIN;

AGUARICO RIVER; BUCAY; COLOMBIA; ECUADOR; GUAYAS; LOS RIOS; QUEVEDO; SOUTH AMERICA;

ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM EXIGUUM;

EID: 34447523815     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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