Multiple Blood Meals Boost Mosquitoes' Disease Transmission Potential
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Villarreal, Daniela
Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases
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When a mosquito bites a human or other animal to feed, it is called taking a bloodmeal. Humans can become infected with mosquito-borne viruses when they are bitten by an infected mosquito. This infographic summarizes results of a NEVBD-supported project investigating how taking multiple bloodmeals in a row affects a mosquito's ability to transmit a disease. Information adapted from the manuscript by Armstrong et al. 2019. HTTPS://WWW.NATURE.COM/ARTICLES/S41564-019-0619-Y.
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Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-borne Diseases is supported through Cooperative Agreement Number 1U01CK000509-01 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Cornell University.
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2021-07-21
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Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases
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