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Beyond the entomological inoculation rate: characterizing multiple blood feeding behavior and Plasmodium falciparum multiplicity of infection in Anopheles mosquitoes in northern Zambia

BACKGROUND: A commonly used measure of malaria transmission intensity is the entomological inoculation rate (EIR), defined as the product of the human biting rate (HBR) and sporozoite infection rate (SIR). The EIR excludes molecular parameters that may influence vector control and surveillance strat...

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Autores principales: Das, Smita, Muleba, Mbanga, Stevenson, Jennifer C., Pringle, Julia C., Norris, Douglas E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5267472/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28122597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-1993-z