Culicidae

"Culicidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A family of the order DIPTERA that comprises the mosquitoes. The larval stages are aquatic, and the adults can be recognized by the characteristic WINGS, ANIMAL venation, the scales along the wing veins, and the long proboscis. Many species are of particular medical importance.

Descriptor ID	D009033
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.712.500.875
Concept/Terms	Culicidae Culicidae Mosquitos Mosquito Mosquitoes

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Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Invertebrates [B01.050.500]
Arthropods [B01.050.500.131]
Insecta [B01.050.500.131.617]
Pterygota [B01.050.500.131.617.720]
Neoptera [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500]
Holometabola [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500]
Diptera [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750]
Nematocera [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.712]
Culicomorpha [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.712.500]
Culicidae [B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.750.712.500.875]

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Bar chart showing 21 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1994	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2004	1	0	1
2008	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2012	1	1	2
2014	3	0	3
2015	1	1	2
2016	1	1	2
2017	1	0	1
2018	0	2	2
2019	2	0	2
2020	0	1	1
2023	1	0	1

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Phillips MT, S?nchez-Gonz?lez L, Shragai T, Rodriguez DM, Major CG, Johansson MA, Rivera-Amill V, Paz-Bailey G, Adams LE. Quantifying the relationship between arboviral infection prevalence and human mobility patterns among participants of the Communities Organized to Prevent Arboviruses cohort (COPA) in southern Puerto Rico. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Dec; 17(12):e0011840.

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Fern?ndez D, Marciel de Souza W, Silvas JA, Deardorff ER, Widen SG, Estrada-Franco JG, Weaver SC, Nunes M, Aguilar PV. Barrita Virus, a Novel Virus of the Patois Serogroup (Genus Orthobunyavirus; Family Peribunyaviridae). Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 07; 103(1):190-192.

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Turell MJ, Gozalo AS, Guevara C, Schoeler GB, Carbajal F, L?pez-Sifuentes VM, Watts DM. Lack of Evidence of Sylvatic Transmission of Dengue Viruses in the Amazon Rainforest Near Iquitos, Peru. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2019 09; 19(9):685-689.

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Diallo D, Diagne CT, Buenemann M, Ba Y, Dia I, Faye O, Sall AA, Faye O, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Hanley KA, Diallo M. Biodiversity Pattern of Mosquitoes in Southeastern Senegal, Epidemiological Implication in Arbovirus and Malaria Transmission. J Med Entomol. 2019 02 25; 56(2):453-463.

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Hepp CM, Cocking JH, Valentine M, Young SJ, Damian D, Samuels-Crow KE, Sheridan K, Fofanov VY, Furstenau TN, Busch JD, Erickson DE, Lancione RC, Smith K, Will J, Townsend J, Keim PS, Engelthaler DM. Phylogenetic analysis of West Nile Virus in Maricopa County, Arizona: Evidence for dynamic behavior of strains in two major lineages in the American Southwest. PLoS One. 2018; 13(11):e0205801.

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Althouse BM, Guerbois M, Cummings DAT, Diop OM, Faye O, Faye A, Diallo D, Sadio BD, Sow A, Faye O, Sall AA, Diallo M, Benefit B, Simons E, Watts DM, Weaver SC, Hanley KA. Role of monkeys in the sylvatic cycle of chikungunya virus in Senegal. Nat Commun. 2018 03 13; 9(1):1046.

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Guzman H, Contreras-Gutierrez MA, Travassos da Rosa APA, Nunes MRT, Cardoso JF, Popov VL, Young KI, Savit C, Wood TG, Widen SG, Watts DM, Hanley KA, Perera D, Fish D, Vasilakis N, Tesh RB. Characterization of Three New Insect-Specific Flaviviruses: Their Relationship to the Mosquito-Borne Flavivirus Pathogens. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018 02; 98(2):410-419.

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Ladner JT, Wiley MR, Beitzel B, Auguste AJ, Dupuis AP, Lindquist ME, Sibley SD, Kota KP, Fetterer D, Eastwood G, Kimmel D, Prieto K, Guzman H, Aliota MT, Reyes D, Brueggemann EE, St John L, Hyeroba D, Lauck M, Friedrich TC, O'Connor DH, Gestole MC, Cazares LH, Popov VL, Castro-Llanos F, Kochel TJ, Kenny T, White B, Ward MD, Loaiza JR, Goldberg TL, Weaver SC, Kramer LD, Tesh RB, Palacios G. A Multicomponent Animal Virus Isolated from Mosquitoes. Cell Host Microbe. 2016 Sep 14; 20(3):357-367.

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Ngonghala CN, Mohammed-Awel J, Zhao R, Prosper O. Interplay between insecticide-treated bed-nets and mosquito demography: implications for malaria control. J Theor Biol. 2016 May 21; 397:179-92.

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Caraballo EV, Hunsperger E, Mart?nez I. Characterization of Puerto Rican West Nile Virus isolates in mice. Virol J. 2015 Sep 11; 12:137.

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