%0 Journal Article
%T Culiseta annulata ¨C just a biting nuisance or a deadly foe?
%A Giovanni Benelli
%A Martin Ward
%J Archive of "Pathogens and Global Health".
%D 2018
%R 10.1080/20477724.2017.1397876
%X Our basic knowledge on the possible relationship between biting activity of mosquito vectors and the spread of cancer is scarce and patchy [1¨C3]. Depinay et al. [4] and Schneider and Higgs [5] have shown that mosquito saliva has the capacity to suppress the human immune system, which is regarded as a pre-requisite to infectious agents causing cancers. Furthermore, it has been argued that anopheline mosquitoes could vector overlooked viruses, which can act as carcinogenic agents [6,7]. In addition, earlier it has been shown that Aedes aegypti (L.) is able to transfer tumour cells of hamster reticulum cell sarcoma through subsequent feeding events on vertebrate hosts [8,9]
%K Cancer
%K Culicidae
%K Hepatitis C
%K Human Papilloma virus
%K Clonorchis sinensi
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6056819/