Taxonomy: f. Culicidae
Animal: Mosquito (epidemiology) 1 11.jpg
Sites: Skin
Comment:
Smears of blood meals to be tested by the precipitin test to detect the hosts on which arthropods feed. . There are several different precipitin test methods; they do not differentiate between closely related species eg. man and other primates, domestic and wild pigs. - Boreham,PFL. 1972. PANS 18: 205-209. McCrae and Boreham. 1976. Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med Hyg. 70: 356. PFL Boreham did a significant amount of research on blood meals of mosquitoes and other arthropods to answer epidemiological questions. - see Boreham. PFL. 1988. DSc; Boreham and Lenahan. 1976. Bull. ent. Res. 66: 671-679; .

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