Salinity-tolerant larvae of mosquito vectors in the tropical coast of Jaffna, Sri Lanka and the effect of salinity on the toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis to Aedes aegypti larvae

BACKGROUND: Dengue, chikungunya, malaria, filariasis and Japanese encephalitis are common mosquito-borne diseases endemic to Sri Lanka. Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, the major vectors of dengue, were recently shown to undergo pre-imaginal development in brackish water bodies in the island. A l...

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Autores principales: Jude, Pavilupillai J, Tharmasegaram, Tharmatha, Sivasubramaniyam, Gobika, Senthilnanthanan, Meena, Kannathasan, Selvam, Raveendran, Selvarajah, Ramasamy, Ranjan, Surendran, Sinnathamby N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23174003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-269

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23174003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-269

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