Occurrence and genetic variability of Phlebotomus papatasi in an urban area of southern Italy

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dantas Torres, Filipe ^a   Latrofa, Maria Stefania ^a   Otranto, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ITALY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOTOMUS; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PHLEBOVIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; COLUMBA; HEXAPODA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 77955821322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-77     Document Type: Article

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