Coquillettidia (Culicidae, Diptera) mosquitoes are natural vectors of avian malaria in Africa

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Njabo, Kevin Y ^a   Cornel, Anthony J ^b   Sehgal, Ravinder N M ^c   Loiseau, Claire ^c   Buermann, Wolfgang ^a   Harrigan, Ryan J ^a   Pollinger, John ^a   Valkiunas, Gediminas ^d   Smith, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; COQUILLETTIDIA AURITES; COQUILLETTIDIA METALLICA; COQUILLETTIDIA PSEUDOCONOPAS; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAMEROON; CULICIDAE; CYTOCHROMES B; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; MALARIA, AVIAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 69449085473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-193     Document Type: Article

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