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On the study of the transmission networks of blood parasites from SW Spain: diversity of avian haemosporidians in the biting midge Culicoides circumscriptus and wild birds

BACKGROUND: Blood-sucking flying insects play a key role in the transmission of pathogens of vector-borne diseases. However, at least for the case of avian malaria parasites, the vast majority of studies focus on the interaction between parasites and vertebrate hosts, but there is a lack of informat...

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Autores principales: Ferraguti, Martina, Martínez-de la Puente, Josué, Ruiz, Santiago, Soriguer, Ramón, Figuerola, Jordi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728217/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23856348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-208