| trichinellosis in papua new guinea. | to describe the discovery in a domestic pig of the first case of trichinellosis in papua new guinea, caused by a new taxon within the genus trichinella (t papuae). also, to establish if the disease occurred in the local wild pig population and in domestic pigs elsewhere in the country, and to test if the worm was infective to some other animals. | 2000 | 11098386 |
| mosquito host-feeding patterns and implications for japanese encephalitis virus transmission in northern australia and papua new guinea. | japanese encephalitis (je) virus spread to northern australia during the 1990s, transmitted by culex annulirostris skuse and other mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae). to determine the relative importance of various hosts for potential vectors of je virus, we investigated the host-feeding patterns of mosquitoes in northern australia and western province of papua new guinea, with particular attention to pigs, sus scrofa l. - the main amplifying host of je virus in south-east asia. mosquitoes were col ... | 2003 | 14651654 |