Mosquito host choices on livestock amplifiers of Rift Valley fever virus in Kenya

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Tchouassi, David P ^a   Okiro, Robinson O K ^a   Sang, Rosemary ^a,b   Cohnstaedt, Lee W ^c   McVey, David Scott ^c   Torto, Baldwyn ^a  

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

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractancy; Enclosure trap; Engorgement rate; RVF livestock amplifiers; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

AEDEOMYIA AFRICANA; AEDEOMYIA FURFURIA; AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES CHAUSSIERI; AEDES DENTATUS; AEDES FURCIFER; AEDES HIRSUTUS; AEDES MCINTOSHI; AEDES TARSALIS; AEDES TRICHOLABIS; ANOPHELES CHRISTYI; ANOPHELES COUSTANI; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MACULIPALPIS; ARTICLE; BOVINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX ANNULIORIS; CULEX ETHIOPICUS; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX POICILIPES; CULEX RUBINOTUS; CULEX TERZII; CULEX THEILERI; CULEX TIGRIPES; CULEX UNIVITTATUS; CULEX VANSOMERENI; CULEX ZOMBAENSIS; GOAT; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SHEEP; VIRUS CARRIER; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RUMINANT; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RIFT VALLEY FEVER; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RUMINANTS;

EID: 85007599994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1473-x     Document Type: Article

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