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Feeding and Quantifying Animal-Derived Blood and Artificial Meals in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes
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Chemical defense against blood-feeding arthropods by disruption of biting behavior
Mustapha Debboun1, Jerome A Klun
1Medical Zoology Branch, Department of Preventive Health Services, Academy of Health Sciences, US Army Medical Department Center & School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
U.S. Army Medical Department Journal
|January 21, 2010
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