What Mosquitos Smell These Days
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Correlation of survival rates of Anopheles dirus A (Diptera: Culicidae) with different infection densities of Plasmodium cynomolgi.
The survival rates are described for 36 paired replicates of Anopheles dirus A mosquitos that had been allowed to engorge themselves on rhesus monkeys that were either infected or non-infected with Plasmodium cynomolgi. The survival rates of infected mosquitos with a mean number of oocysts less than 10 did not differ significantly from those that were non-infected; however, there was a signific...
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