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7843335

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-3-9
pubmed:abstractText
While searching for blood, female mosquitoes pass through a behavioural process involving responses to visual, physical and chemical properties of the host. Temperature and humidity are thought to dominate mosquito orientation near the host. We observed that biting of two malaria mosquito species, i.e. Anopheles atroparvus (van Thiel) and Anopheles gambiae s.s. (Giles) preferentially occurs on different body regions of a naked motionless human host. Their preference for the head and foot regions respectively correlated with particular combinations of skin temperature and eccrine sweat gland density. Subsequent modification of the host's odour profile by removing exhaled breath and washing feet results in significant changes of these preferences.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0014-4754
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
80-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Selection of biting sites on man by two malaria mosquito species.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't