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Genetic analysis of Aedes aegypti captured at two international airports serving to the Greater Tokyo Area during 2012-2015.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Itokawa Kentaro, Hu Jinping, Sukehiro Nayu, Tsuda Yoshio, Komagata Osamu, Kasai Shinji, Tomita Takashi, Minakawa Noboru, Sawabe Kyoko
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of exotic disease vectors into a new habitat can drastically change the local epidemiological situation. During 2012-2015, larvae and an adult of the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, were captured alive at two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Because this species does not naturally distribute in this country, those mosquitoes were considered to be introduced from...
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