Mammalophilic feeding behaviour of Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes collected in the cities of Chetumal and Cancun, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1488-1491

  Janssen, Nele ^a   Fernandez Salas, Ildefonso ^b,c   Díaz González, Esteban Eduardo ^b,d   Gaytan Burns, Alejandro ^b,d   Medina de la Garza, Carlos E ^b   Sanchez Casas, Rosa María ^b,e   Börstler, Jessica ^a   Cadar, Daniel ^a   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^a,f   Jöst, Hanna ^a,f  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias de la Salud   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d Laboratorio de Inmunologia y Virologia   (Mexico)

^e Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia   (Mexico)

^f Center for Structural Systems Biology Helmholtz   (Germany)

Author keywords

bird; Culex quinquefasciatus; host feeding behaviour; human; Mexico; PCR; reptile

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA;

BIRD; BLOOD; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOPHAGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MOSQUITO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPTILE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BOVINE; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; DOMESTIC PIG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LIZARD; MALE; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REPTILE;

FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; MEXICO CITY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

AVES; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84973499923     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12587     Document Type: Article

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