Observations on sporozoite detection in naturally infected sibling species of the Anopheles culicifacies complex and variant of Anopheles stephensi in India

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-336

  Ghosh, Susanta Kumar ^a   Tiwari, Satyanarayan ^a   Raghavendra, Kamaraju ^a   Sathyanarayan, Tiruchinapalli Sundaraj ^a   Dash, Aditya Prasad ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

An. culicifacies sibling species; An. stephensi variants; Malaria; Sporozoites

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHOD; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE VECTOR; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; RURAL AREA; SIBLING; URBAN AREA;

ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HOST RANGE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INDIA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SALIVARY GLAND; SAMPLING; SIBLING; SPOROZOITE; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPOROZOITES;

ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI;

EID: 52649179323     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: 02505991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12038-008-0052-5     Document Type: Article

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