Nutritional stress affects mosquito survival and vector competence for west nile virus

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 727-732

  Vaidyanathan, Rajeev ^a,b,c   Fleisher, Andrew E ^a   Minnick, Sharon L ^a   Simmons, Keira A ^a   Scott, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SRI CADRE   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus(es); Mosquito(es); Survival; West Nile

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; LIPID; SUCROSE; SUGAR; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; FEMALE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL STRESS; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; STRESS; TEST MEAL; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CULEX; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 57749114560     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0189     Document Type: Article

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