Primary blood-hosts of mosquitoes are influenced by social and ecological conditions in a complex urban landscape

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Goodman, Heather ^a   Egizi, Andrea ^b   Fonseca, Dina M ^c   Leisnham, Paul T ^d   Ladeau, Shannon L ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b Tick Borne Disease Laboratory   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Avian; Blood meal; Human; Mosquito; Rat; Vector

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEDES; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES JAPONICUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX RESTUANS; CULEX SALINARIUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HOST; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MOSQUITO BITE; MOSQUITO VECTOR; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SANGUIVORE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MARYLAND; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BALTIMORE; CITIES; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOSQUITO VECTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85045191377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-2779-7     Document Type: Article

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