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Sugar-fermenting yeast as an organic source of carbon dioxide to attract the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

BACKGROUND: Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) plays an important role in the host-seeking process of opportunistic, zoophilic and anthropophilic mosquito species and is, therefore, commonly added to mosquito sampling tools. The African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto is attracted to human volati...

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Autores principales: Smallegange, Renate C, Schmied, Wolfgang H, van Roey, Karel J, Verhulst, Niels O, Spitzen, Jeroen, Mukabana, Wolfgang R, Takken, Willem
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20973963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-292