Title: New Mosquito Hosts for Plasmodium gallinaceum
Abstract: Mosquito species previously reported to be susceptible to Plasmodium gallinaceum include 13 species of Aedes, 5 species of Armigeres and 2 species of Culex (Brumpt 1936, Roubaud, Colas-Belcour and Mathis 1939, Vargas and Beltran 1941, Russell and Mohan 1942, Russell and Menon 1942). These records include only 3 species indigenous to North America, i.e., Aedes vexans Meigen, Aedes aegypti Linnaeus and Culex quinquefasciatus Say. This report includes the results of observations on 2 American species that have and 7 that have not been previously studied. The mosquitoes were either reared from larvae or captured in the field as adults. They were allowed to feed on an infected chicken and were kept at 28? C. From 3 to 9 days later most of them were dissected and examined for o6cysts. A few were examined for sporozoites and oocysts after 9 to 21 days. As may be seen in Table 1, oocysts were observed in Aedes camnpestris Dyar and
Publication Year: 1945
Publication Date: 1945-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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