| blood sources of mosquitoes collected from urban and peri-urban environments in eastern australia with species-specific molecular analysis of avian blood meals. | to identify the hosts of mosquitoes collected from urban and peri-urban habitats in eastern australia, 1,180 blood fed mosquitoes representing 15 species were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and molecular techniques. four common and epidemiologically important species could be classified according to their host-feeding patterns: aedes aegypti was anthropophilic, ae. vigilax was mammalophilic, culex quinquefasciatus was ornithophilic, and cx. annulirostris was opportunistic, readily ... | 2009 | 19861621 |