Publications

seasonal changes in the feeding pattern of culex pipiens pallens govern the transmission dynamics of multiple lineages of avian malaria parasites in japanese wild bird community.	heterogeneity in the transmission of mosquito-borne pathogens is determined largely by distribution patterns of mosquito bites among wild animal populations. although mosquitoes are crucial for transmission of avian malaria parasites, little is known about the ecology of natural vectors. we examined bloodmeal and parasite incidence in culex pipiens pallens by a polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based procedure to determine how the feeding pattern of mosquitoes govern transmission dynamics of avian ...	2010	21044196
mosquito blood-meal analysis for avian malaria study in wild bird communities: laboratory verification and application to culex sasai (diptera: culicidae) collected in tokyo, japan.	we conducted laboratory experiments to verify molecular techniques of avian malaria parasite detection distinguishing between an infected mosquito (oocysts on midgut wall) and infective mosquito (sporozoites in salivary glands) in parallel with blood-meal identification from individual blood-fed mosquitoes prior to application to field survey for avian malaria. domestic fowl infected with plasmodium gallinaceum was exposed to a vector and non-vector mosquito species, aedes aegypti and culex pipi ...	2009	19629522