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 11 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1997 and 2004 and 2008 and 2009 and 2013 and 2017 and 2019 and 2020 and 2023 and 2024 and 2026

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1997	0	1	1
2004	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	1	0	1
2013	1	0	1
2017	1	0	1
2019	0	1	1
2020	1	0	1
2023	1	0	1
2024	1	0	1
2026	1	0	1

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Bourgikos E, Dellicour S, Lemey P, Feriancek NM, Bransfield AB, Breban MI, Misencik MJ, Petruff TA, Shepard JJ, Andreadis TG, Anderson JF, Ngo KA, Maffei JG, Dupuis AP, Rich SM, Xu G, Sakolsky G, Price KJ, Metzger ML, Suchard MA, Lopes R, G?mbaro F, Carlson CJ, Baele G, Ciota AT, Vogels CBF, Hill V, Armstrong PM, Grubaugh ND. Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus reveals complex multi-vector ecology. Curr Biol. 2026 May 04; 36(9):2343-2356.e7.

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Tokash-Peters AG, Niyonzima JD, Kayirangwa M, Muhayimana S, Tokash IW, Jabon JD, Lopez SG, Kearns PJ, Woodhams DC. Mosquito Microbiomes of Rwanda: Characterizing Mosquito Host and Microbial Communities in the Land of a Thousand Hills. Microb Ecol. 2024 May 01; 87(1):64.

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Andolina C, Ramjith J, Rek J, Lanke K, Okoth J, Grignard L, Arinaitwe E, Briggs J, Bailey J, Aydemir O, Kamya MR, Greenhouse B, Dorsey G, Staedke SG, Drakeley C, Jonker M, Bousema T. Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage in longitudinally monitored incident infections is associated with duration of infection and human host factors. Sci Rep. 2023 05 01; 13(1):7072.

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Kinsella CM, Paras ML, Smole S, Mehta S, Ganesh V, Chen LH, McQuillen DP, Shah R, Chan J, Osborne M, Hennigan S, Halpern-Smith F, Brown CM, Sabeti P, Piantadosi A. Jamestown Canyon virus in Massachusetts: clinical case series and vector screening. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Dec; 9(1):903-912.

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S? JM, Kaslow SR, Moraes Barros RR, Brazeau NF, Parobek CM, Tao D, Salzman RE, Gibson TJ, Velmurugan S, Krause MA, Melendez-Muniz V, Kite WA, Han PK, Eastman RT, Kim A, Kessler EG, Abebe Y, James ER, Chakravarty S, Orr-Gonzalez S, Lambert LE, Engels T, Thomas ML, Fasinu PS, Serre D, Gwadz RW, Walker L, DeConti DK, Mu J, Bailey JA, Sim BKL, Hoffman SL, Fay MP, Dinglasan RR, Juliano JJ, Wellems TE. Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance links to pvcrt transcription in a genetic cross. Nat Commun. 2019 09 20; 10(1):4300.

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Lindholm DA, Myers T, Widjaja S, Grant EM, Telu K, Lalani T, Fraser J, Fairchok M, Ganesan A, Johnson MD, Kunz A, Tribble DR, Yun HC. Mosquito Exposure and Chikungunya and Dengue Infection Among Travelers During the Chikungunya Outbreak in the Americas. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Apr; 96(4):903-912.

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Carter JR, Keith JH, Fraser TS, Dawson JL, Kucharski CA, Horne KM, Higgs S, Fraser MJ. Effective suppression of dengue virus using a novel group-I intron that induces apoptotic cell death upon infection through conditional expression of the Bax C-terminal domain. Virol J. 2014 Jun 13; 11:111.

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Andrews ES, Xu G, Rich SM. Microbial communities within field-collected Culiseta melanura and Coquillettidia perturbans. Med Vet Entomol. 2014 Jun; 28(2):125-32.

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Junglen S, Kurth A, Kuehl H, Quan PL, Ellerbrok H, Pauli G, Nitsche A, Nunn C, Rich SM, Lipkin WI, Briese T, Leendertz FH. Examining landscape factors influencing relative distribution of mosquito genera and frequency of virus infection. Ecohealth. 2009 Jun; 6(2):239-49.

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Liu P, Woda M, Ennis FA, Libraty DH. Dengue virus infection differentially regulates endothelial barrier function over time through type I interferon effects. J Infect Dis. 2009 Jul 15; 200(2):191-201.

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