| mosquito and aquatic predator communities in ground pools on lands deforested for rice field development in central sulawesi, indonesia. | aquatic habitats, mosquitoes, and larvivorous predators were studied on deforested lands in central sulawesi, indonesia. open ground pools, mainly in depressions made by the treads of bulldozers and other heavy equipment, were numerous but because of their small size, comprised ca. 1% or less of the total area of the deforested lands studied. the dominant mosquitoes in these pools were anopheles vagus, culex vishnui, culex tritaeniorhynchus, and culex gelidus. the 1st 2 species were dominant in ... | 1999 | 10412104 |
| detection of dna of nocturnally periodic brugia malayi in night and day blood samples by a polymerase chain reaction-elisa-based method using an internal control dna. | an internal control was used in a polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-elisa-based technique to detect the hha i repeat of the filarial parasite brugia malayi. a single microfilaria added to 200 microl of blood was reliably detected. the assay was evaluated on field samples from persons living in an area endemic for anopheles-transmitted, nocturnally periodic b. malayi in central sulawesi, indonesia. examination of night blood of 138 individuals for the presence of microfilariae by filtration reveale ... | 2000 | 10813487 |