Unbiased Characterization of Anopheles Mosquito Blood Meals by Targeted High-Throughput Sequencing.

Understanding mosquito host choice is important for assessing vector competence or identifying disease reservoirs. Unfortunately, the availability of an unbiased method for comprehensively evaluating the composition of insect blood meals is very limited, as most current molecular assays only test fo...

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Main Authors: Kyle Logue, John Bosco Keven, Matthew V Cannon, Lisa Reimer, Peter Siba, Edward D Walker, Peter A Zimmerman, David Serre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-03-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4786206?pdf=render