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SUBMITTER: Palermo PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5094211 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palermo Pedro M PM Aguilar Patricia V PV Sanchez Juan F JF Zorrilla Víctor V Flores-Mendoza Carmen C Huayanay Anibal A Guevara Carolina C Lescano Andrés G AG Halsey Eric S ES
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20160912 5
The transmission dynamics of many arboviruses in the Amazon Basin region have not been fully elucidated, including the vectors and natural reservoir hosts. Identification of blood meal sources in field-caught mosquitoes could yield information for identifying potential arbovirus vertebrate hosts. We identified blood meal sources in 131 mosquitoes collected from areas endemic for arboviruses in the Peruvian Department of Loreto by sequencing polymerase chain reaction amplicons of the cytochrome b ...[more]