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Studies on the Intake of Microfilariae by their Insect Vectors, their Survival, and their Effect on the Survival of their Vectors

IX.—The Pattern of the Frequency of the Blood-Meals Taken in by Chrysops Silacea and of the Survival of the Fly in Natural Conditions in the Rain-Forest of the British Cameroons and on a Rubber Estate in the Niger Delta

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Pages 26-37 | Received 21 Nov 1956, Published online: 17 Mar 2016

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