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In entomological surveys after man-biting insects have been collected and identified it is often important to determine whether they are disease vectors; for example, whether anopheline mosquitoes caught feeding on man are vectors of malaria or filariasis, and if so the infective proportion.
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Service, M.W. (1980). Methods for dissecting arthropod vectors to determine infection rates. In: A Guide to Medical Entomology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16334-2_26
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