| vector competence of australian mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae) for japanese encephalitis virus. | australian mosquitoes were evaluated for their ability to become infected with and transmit a torres strait strain of japanese encephalitis virus. mosquitoes, which were obtained from either laboratory colonies and collected using centers for disease control and prevention light traps baited with co2 and octenol or reared from larvae, were infected by feeding on a blood/sucrose solution containing 10(4.5 +/- 0.1) porcine stable-equine kidney (ps-ek) tissue culture infectious dose50/mosquito of t ... | 2003 | 12597658 |
| efficacy of vectobac (bacillus thuringiensis variety israelensis) formulations for mosquito control in australia. | laboratory bioassays were conducted on the efficacy of a water-dispersible granule (wg) formulation of bacillus thuringiensis variety israelensis (vectobac wg; active ingredient [ai]: 3,000 bti international toxic units [itu]/mg) against third instars of six common australian mosquito species, aedes aegypti (l.), ochlerotatus vigilax (skuse), ochlerotatus notoscriptus (skuse), culex sitiens wiedemann, culex annulirostris skuse, and culex quinquefasciatus say. the normal model for log-linear mort ... | 2003 | 14977116 |
| 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 |