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Increased Endophily by the Malaria Vector Anopheles arabiensis in Southern Zambia and Identification of Digested Blood Meals
1 Dec 2008
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An increase in Anopheles arabiensis showing endophilic behavior was observed in Macha, Zambia during March 2007. To determine whether this shift in resting behavior was accompanied by a change in feeding preference, an attempt was made to calculate the human blood index. However, only 46.2% of blood meals were successfully identified with existing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostics. This failure was...
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