Publications

experimental transmission of wuchereria bancrofti to monkeys.	infective larvae of wuchereria bancrofti from laboratory-raised culex pipiens fatigans and aedes togoi mosquitoes fed on human volunteers in jakarta, indonesia (j strain) and kinmen island, china (k strain) were introduced into taiwan monkeys (macaca cyclopis) by subcutaneous inoculation, by foot puncture, or by permitting infected mosquitoes to feed weekly on the monkeys. some animals were splenectomized and others were treated with varying regimens of immunosuppressants. necropsy was done on m ...	1979	107818
host preference of mosquito vectors of japanese encephalitis.	the host preference of 4 culex mosquito species collected in miaoli and pingtung counties, taiwan was studied by capillary precipitin method. antisera to alum-precipitated sera of man, bovine, swine, rabbit, horse, dog, cat, mouse, chicken, duck, and pigeon were produced in rabbits and reacted with 758 mosquito blood meals among which reactions to one or more antisera. culex annulus and culex tritaeniorhynchus summorosus showed a great avidity for pig, and culex fuscocephala for bovine. culex pi ...	1975	181218
filariasis eradication on kinmen proper, kinmen (quemoy) islands, republic of china.	a control program for bancroftian filariasis was conducted on kinmen proper from 1970 to 1982. the combined method of mass chemotherapy with diethylcarbamazine (dec) for microfilarial carriers and larvicide with sumithion for mosquitoes was used on the island for 3 years (1974-76). the microfilarial rate and microfilarial density decreased from 8.4% and 14.6/20 microns in 1970-73 to 0.7% and 5.3/20 microns in 1976. the infection rate, infective rate, and larval density of culex quinquefasciatus, ...	1990	1971493
eradication of bancroftian filariasis by diethylcarbamazine-medicated common salt on little kinmen (liehyu district), kinmen (quemoy) islands, republic of china.	since bancroftian filariasis constituted a major public health problem on little kinmen (liehyu district), kinmen (quemoy) islands, a control programme was conducted on this island from 1970 to 1982. a pre-control survey recorded a microfilarial rate (mfr) of 9.6%, a night blood microfilarial density (mfd) of 14.4/20 microliters blood, and a clinical rate of 26.2%. culex quinquefasciatus was found to be the only vector of the parasitosis on the island, with an infection rate (ir) with all filari ...	1990	2184787
observations of the guppy, poecilia reticulata peters, in culex pipiens fatigans breeding sites in bangkok, rangoon, and taipei.		1972	4261424
mosquito fauna in water-holding containers with emphasis on dengue vectors (diptera: culicidae) in chungho, taipei county, taiwan.	a survey was conducted to characterize the mosquito fauna in water-holding containers in residential and open areas with emphasis on aedes albopictus skuse, and to determine the prevalence of mosquito-positive containers to obtain background information for a source reduction program. seven container-inhabiting mosquito species were collected in residential areas, including ae. albopictus, culex quinquefasciatus say, c. pallidothorax theobald, c. neomimulus lien, c. bicornutus theobald, c. fusca ...	1999	10467775
susceptibility of mosquitoes in central taiwan to natural infections of dirofilaria immitis.	from october 1997 to september 1998, 3085 culex quinquefasciatus (say) (diptera: culicidae), 584 cx. tritaeniorhynchus (giles) (diptera: culicidae), 392 cx. annulus (theobald) (diptera: culicidae), 374 aedes albopictus (skuse) (diptera: culicidae) and 102 armigeres subalbatus (coquillet) (diptera: culicidae) were collected and examined for dirofilaria immitis (leidy) (spirurida: filariidae) infection. however, only cx. quinquefasciatus and ae. albopictus were infected, with a prevalence of 4.28% ...	2001	11297103
isolation of japanese encephalitis virus from mosquitoes collected in northern taiwan between 1995 and 1996.	mosquito collections were carried out from may to october in 1995 and 1996 at yingko and sanhsia of taipei county and chunan of miaoli county. a grand total of 13,576 mosquitoes consisting of 13 species in 407 pools were processed and inoculated into aedes albopictus clone c6/36 cell cultures. one hundred thirty seven pools of these showed the presence of viral antigens in the infected c6/36 cell lysates which were identified by the indirect fluorescent antibody test using a monoclonal antibody ...	1999	11561572
demonstration of vector competence of culex quinquefasciatus (diptera: culicidae) for setaria digitata.	in taiwan, setaria digitata infection causes a lumber paralysis in increasing number of cattle. culex quinquefasciatus is one of the predominant mosquitoes, and it has been suspected that c. quinquefasciatus acts as a vector to setaria nematodes prevalence but this was not confirmed. c. quinquefasciatus, aedes albopictus and a. aegypti of various strains were investigated using an artificial infection system to evaluate their vector competence. after blood feeding at day 14, the number of larvae ...	2004	15325055