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Understanding mosquito host-choice behaviour: a new and low-cost method of identifying the sex of human hosts from mosquito blood meals

BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne diseases are a global health problem, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. Pathogens are transmitted by mosquitoes feeding on the blood of an infected host and then feeding on a new host. Monitoring mosquito host-choice behaviour can help in many aspects of ve...

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Autores principales: Teltscher, Fiona, Bouvaine, Sophie, Gibson, Gabriella, Dyer, Paul, Guest, Jennifer, Young, Stephen, Hopkins, Richard J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7825230/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-021-04577-w