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Sporogony and sporozoite rates of avian malaria parasites in wild Culex pipiens pallens and C. inatomii in Japan

BACKGROUND: Malaria infection in mosquitoes is traditionally detected by microscopic examination for Plasmodium oocysts and sporozoites. Although PCR is now widely used, the presence of parasite DNA in a mosquito does not prove that sporogony is achieved. Thus, detection of sporozoites by microscopy...

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Autores principales: Kim, Kyeongsoon, Tsuda, Yoshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4678469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26666959
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1251-1