Differential attraction of malaria mosquitoes to volatile blends produced by human skin bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Verhulst, Niels O ^a   Andriessen, Rob ^a   Groenhagen, Ulrike ^b   Kiss, Gabriella Bukovinszkiné ^a   Schulz, Stefan ^b   Takken, Willem ^a   van Loon, Joop J A ^a   Schraa, Gosse ^a   Smallegange, Renate C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHEROMONE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM EPIDERMIDIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM MINUTISSIMUM; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SKIN FLORA; SKIN ODOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; ODOR; SKIN;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CULICIDAE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALARIA; ODORS; PHEROMONES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SKIN; SMELL;

EID: 78651239056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015829     Document Type: Article

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