"Bird biting" mosquitoes and human disease: A review of the role of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes in epidemiology

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1577-1585

  Farajollahi, Ary ^a   Fonseca, Dina M ^a   Kramer, Laura D ^b,c   Marm Kilpatrick, A ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Bridge vector; Invasive species; Vector borne disease; Vector competence; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

AVIAN MALARIA; CULEX; CULEX AUSTRALICUS; CULEX GLOBOCOXITUS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FILARIASIS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ST LOUIS FLAVIVIRUS; SUBURBAN AREA; TROPIC CLIMATE; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

ARBOVIRUS; AVES; CULEX AUSTRALICUS; CULEX GLOBOCOXITUS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PALLENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; MAMMALIA; ST. LOUIS ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 80053566320     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.08.013     Document Type: Review

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