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Anopheles
A genus of mosquitoes, including vectors of malaria & filariasis.
Epidemiology:
- Anopheles mosquitoes prefer persons with whole body odor of volatile carboxylic acids butyric acid, isobutryic acid, & isovaleric acid, skin microbe-generated methyl ketone acetoin
- Anopheles mosquitoes least prefer perseones with whole body odor depleted of carboxylic acids but enriched with eucalyptol [3]
Related
filariasis (wucheresiasis)
malaria
General
Culicidae; mosquito
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: INSECTA
ORDER: diptera
FAMILY: Culicidae
GENUS: Anopheles
References
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed.
Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 1212-13
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Giraldo D, Rankin-Turner S, Corver A et al
Human scent guides mosquito thermotaxis and host selection under
naturalistic conditions.
Curr Biol. 2023 Jun 19;33(12):2367-2382.e7.
PMID: 37209680
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(23)00532-8