Seasonal blood-feeding behavior of culex tarsalis (Diptera: culicidae) in weld County, Colorado, 2007

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 380-390

  Kent, Rebekah ^a   Juliusson, Lara ^b   Weissmann, Michael ^c   Evans, Sara ^d   Komar, Nicholas ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Tri County Health Department Colorado   (United States)

^c Colorado Mosquito Control ^*  (United States)

^d Weld County Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

American robin; Blood feeding behavior; Culex tarsalis; Forage ratio; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD PREFERENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; SEASON; SONGBIRD; SPARROW; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; COLUMBIDAE; CULEX; FOOD PREFERENCES; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; SPARROWS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; COLUMBIFORMES; CULEX TARSALIS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; MAMMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS; VERTEBRATA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 63749100130     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/033.046.0226     Document Type: Article

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