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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 87 - 89
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5591.87

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In Pursuit of a Killer

Gretchen Vogel

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO--Because of its location between rainforest and dry sahel, Burkina Faso has perhaps one of the heaviest mosquito burdens in Africa. Armed with microscopes, tweezers, and modified Shop-Vac wet-dry vacuums, researchers here are hunting malaria mosquitoes in an effort to learn what makes them dangerous--and vulnerable.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)