Browsing by Subject "Blood meal volume"

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The applicability of spectrophotometry for the assessment of blood meal volume inartificially fed Culicoides imicola in South Africa

De Beer, Chantel Janet; Boikanyo, Solomon N.B.; Venter, Gert Johannes; Mans, Ben J. (Barend Johannes) (Wiley, 2021-03)

The volume of the blood meal of haematophagous insects will determine the number of infective particles taken up during feeding and may as such denote the minimum dose needed to infect a competent vector. Culicoides midges ...
Assessment of the Hemotek® system for the in vitro feeding of field-collected Culicoides imicola (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in South Africa

De Beer, C.J.; Boikanyo, S.N.B.; Venter, Gert Johannes (Wiley, 2021-06)

The optimising and standardisation of in vitro blood feeding protocols for field-collected Culicoides species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) will be of essence for the comparison of the vector competencies of various populations ...

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