Mosquito appetite for blood is stimulated by Plasmodium chabaudi infections in themselves and their vertebrate hosts

Malaria Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ferguson, Heather M ^a,b,c   Read, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PREVALENCE; RODENT; SUPERINFECTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MICE; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 4844227435     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-3-12     Document Type: Article

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