Distribution and ecology of mosquitoes in a focus of dirofilariasis in northwestern Iran, with the first finding of filarial larvae in naturally infected local mosquitoes

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-121

  Azari Hamidian, S ^a,b   Yaghoobi Ershadi, M R ^a   Javadian, E ^a   Abai, M R ^a   Mobedi, I ^a   Linton, Y M ^c   Harbach, R E ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culicidae; Cytochrome c oxidase I (COI); Dirofilariasis; Internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2); Iran; Setariasis; Vector

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; DISEASE VECTOR; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; IRAN; LARVA;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

AEDES VEXANS; ANOPHELES CLAVIGER; ANOPHELES MACULIPENNIS; COQUILLETTIDIA RICHIARDII; CULEX HORTENSIS; CULEX THEILERI; CULICIDAE; CULISETA LONGIAREOLATA; DIPTERA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FILARIOIDEA; MACULIPENNIS GROUP; OCHLEROTATUS CASPIUS; OCHLEROTATUS GENICULATUS; ONCHOCERCIDAE; SETARIA (NEMATODE); SETARIA LABIATOPAPILLOSA; SPIRURIDA;

EID: 66749108645     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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