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Fig. 2 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 2

From: Public health significance of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and its role in the eco-epidemiology of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases in North America

Fig. 2

How mosquitoes utilize white-tailed deer as reproductive and reservoir hosts. A A representative example of virus maintenance in an alternating primary vector-host (bird in this case) cycle with a secondary vector utilizing deer as a reproductive host. B A depiction of a cycle in which the WTD serves as the viral reservoir host and vector blood meal source in the vector-host cycle

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