Plant resting site preferences and parity rates among the vectors of Rift Valley Fever in northeastern Kenya

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Arum, Samwel O ^a,b   Weldon, Christopher W ^b   Orindi, Benedict ^a   Tigoi, Caroline ^a   Musili, Francis ^a   Landmann, Tobias ^a   Tchouassi, David P ^a   Affognon, Hippolyte D ^a,c   Sang, Rosemary ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

Author keywords

Parity; Resting preference; Rift Valley fever vectors; Survival; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR; RAIN;

ACANTHACEAE; AEDES MCINTOSHI; AEDES OCHRACEUS; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUOSPERMA KILIMANDSCHARICUM; GISEKIA AFRICANA; KENYA; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT RESTING SITE PREFERENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAP CROP; VEGETATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CULEX; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; PARITY; PLANTS; RAIN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SEASONS;

EID: 85007597198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1601-7     Document Type: Article

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