ATTRACTIVENESS AND REPELLENCY OF MAN TO MOSQUITO BITES.
Abstract
In the first 8 months of investigating the attractiveness of humans to mosquitoes it was demonstrated that under ordinary working conditions there is little variability in the biting avidity of the female Aedes aegypti mosquito. In addition, it was shown that when handled carefully mosquitoes will bite at any time during the day with little variation from 4 days of age. Human volunteers were exposed to small numbers of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes placed in biting cages in an effort to find subjects who are less attractive or completely unattractive than others, but without a clue at this time as to why this is so. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 03, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0433866
Entities
People
- Howard I. Maibach
Organizations
- University of California, San Francisco