Haemoproteus infections (Haemosporida, Haemoproteidae) kill bird-biting mosquitoes

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1011-1018

  Valkiunas, Gediminas ^a   Kazlauskiene, Rita ^a   Bernotiene, Rasa ^a   Bukauskaite, Dovile ^a   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^a   Iezhova, Tatjana A ^a  

^a Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APICOMPLEXAN INFECTION; ARTICLE; BIRD; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAEMOPROTEUS BALMORALI; HAEMOPROTEUS INFECTION; HAEMOPROTEUS LANII; HAEMOPROTEUS TARTAKOVSKYI; HAEMOSPORIDA; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO BITE; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS; OCHLEROTATUS CANTANS; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; HAEMOPROTEUS; HAEMOPROTEUS BALMORALI; HAEMOPROTEUS LANII; HAEMOSPORIDA; HEXAPODA; OCHLEROTATUS CANTANS;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; FEMALE; HAEMOSPORIDA; OCHLEROTATUS; PARASITEMIA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84895510764     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-013-3733-4     Document Type: Article

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