Authors: Edeson JFB Wharton RH Laing ABG
Publish Date: 1960/09/01
Volume: 54, Issue: 5, Pages: 439-449
Abstract
JFB Edeson RH Wharton ABG Laing A preliminary account of the transmission maintenance and laboratory vectors of Brugia pahangi Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 54 Issue 5 September 1960 Pages 439–449 https//doiorg/101016/0035920360900894Attempts were made to transmit B pahangi by the direct inoculation of infective larvae to domestic cats slow loris macaque monkeys civet cats squirrels treeshrews and guineapigs Cats slow loris and civet cats were successfully infected but no monkeys became infectedFeeding experiments with a wide range of mosquitoes showed that Armigeres obturbans is a very efficient host Mansonia annulatus is also a good host but M uniformis is less efficient and M longipalpis is a comparatively poor laboratory host M C crassipes Anopheles barbirostris A umbrosus and small numbers of Aedes aegypti and Culex fatigans also supported development to the infective stage
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