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Frequency of Blood Feeding in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

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THE probability that a female mosquito transmits a pathogen from one host to another depends, in part, on the frequency of blood feeding. Aedes aegypti (L.) is a vector of several arboviruses, whose feeding frequency has been measured in the laboratory1–4. We now present a direct field estimate of this parameter.

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  1. Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California, 95616

    G. A. H. MCCLELLAND

  2. Environmental Resource Management Research Unit, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire

    G. R. CONWAY

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MCCLELLAND, G., CONWAY, G. Frequency of Blood Feeding in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Nature 232, 485–486 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232485a0

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