Human skin microbiota and their volatiles as odour baits for the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-179

  Verhulst, Niels O ^a   Mukabana, Wolfgang R ^b,c   Takken, Willem ^a   Smallegange, Renate C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Culicidae; Diptera; Host odour; Mosquito behaviour; Odour baited traps; Skin bacteria

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BAIT; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; MALARIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOSQUITO; ODOR; SKIN; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 79953886265     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01119.x     Document Type: Article

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