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A Study of the Behaviour of the Mouth-Parts of Mosquitoes when Taking Up Blood from Living Tissue; Together with Some Observations on the Ingestion of Microfilariae

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Pages 259-278 | Received 14 Oct 1939, Published online: 22 Mar 2016

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