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NILES1,2 recently reported an infective larva of a filarioid and an unidentified Plasmodium from Mansonia crassipes in Ceylon. Since then a number of M. crassipes from the same locality (Hokkandara, in the suburbs of Colombo) were found infected, the mosquitoes frequently having both oocysts and sporozoites as well as filarial infections. Two types of oocysts and two types of infective filarial larvae were seen.
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Niles, W. J., Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg., 56, 437 (1962).
Niles, W. J., Trans. Roy. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg., 57, 489 (1963).
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NILES, W., FERNANDO, M. & DISSANAIKE, A. Mansonia crassipes as the Natural Vector of Filarioids, Plasmodium gallinaceum and Other Plasmodia of Fowls in Ceylon. Nature 205, 411–412 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205411a0
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