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Aedes aegypti in the Black Sea: recent introduction or ancient remnant?
Parasites & vectors - 6 Jul 2018
Kotsakiozi Panayiota, Gloria-Soria Andrea, Schaffner Francis, Robert Vincent, Powell Jeffrey R
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BACKGROUND: The yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti transmits viral diseases that have plagued humans for centuries. Its ancestral home are forests of Africa and ~400-600 years ago it invaded the New World and later Europe and Asia, causing some of the largest epidemics in human history. The species was rarely detected in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea after the 1950s, but during the last 16 years it...
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