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Human Sweat Components Attractive to Mosquitoes

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WHETHER human sweat is attractive to mosquitoes is a controversial problem. Hewlett1, Rudolfs2 and Rahm3 concluded that human sweat was not attractive; however, Parker4 and Brown5,6 found the contrary. Recently, Brown7,8 reported that lysine and alanine are attractive to Aedes aegypti (L.).

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California

    W. A. SKINNER & H. TONG

  2. Division of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco

    T. PEARSON, W. STRAUSS & H. MAIBACH

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SKINNER, W., TONG, H., PEARSON, T. et al. Human Sweat Components Attractive to Mosquitoes. Nature 207, 661–662 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207661a0

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