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International Journal of Clinical & Medical Microbiology Volume 2 (2017), Article ID 2:IJCMM-118, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-4028/2017/118
Research Article
A Pilot Study for the Establishment of a Bloodsucking Model for Forcipomyia taiwana (Biting Midge)

Hung-Yu Shu1, Chun-Yao Chen2, Ya-Ting Hsu2 and Guang-Huey Lin3*

1Department of Bioscience Technology, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan
2Department of Life Science,Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
3Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
Dr. Guang-Huey Lin, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University,Number 701, Section 3, Chung-Yang Road, 97004, Hualien, Taiwan; E-mail: veronica@gms.tcu.edu.tw
15 January 2017; 06 March 2017; 08 March 2017
Shu HY, Chen CY,Hsu YT, Lin GH (2017) A Pilot Study for the Establishment of a Bloodsucking Model for Forcipomyia taiwana (Biting Midge). Int J Clin Med Microbiol 2: 118. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-4028/2017/118
This study was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST104-2320-B-320-011).
© 2017 Shu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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