First report in italy of the exotic mosquito species Aedes (Finlaya) koreicus, a potential vector of arboviruses and filariae

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Capelli, Gioia ^a   Drago, Andrea ^b   Martini, Simone ^b   Montarsi, Fabrizio ^a   Soppelsa, Mauro ^c   Delai, Nicola ^c   Ravagnan, Silvia ^a   Mazzon, Luca ^d   Schaffner, Francis ^e   Mathis, Alexander ^e   Di Luca, Marco ^f   Romi, Roberto ^f   Russo, Francesca ^g  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b Entostudio   (Italy)

^c Local Health Unit (ULSS 2)   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^g Direzione Prevenzione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aedes koreicus; entomological monitoring; exotic mosquito; invasive species; Italy

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; INSECT PROTEIN;

AEDES; AEDES KOREICUS; AMPLICON; ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FILARIA; ITALY; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LARVA; MONITORING; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FINLAYA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ITALY;

EID: 80053344852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-188     Document Type: Article

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