Moretti, Riccardo
Lampazzi, Elena
Damiani, Claudia
Fabbri, Giulia
Lombardi, Giulia
Pioli, Claudio
Desiderio, Angiola
Serrao, Aurelio
Calvitti, Maurizio
Article History
Received: 29 October 2021
Accepted: 1 February 2022
First Online: 24 February 2022
Declarations
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: Blood meals were provided via anesthetized mice in agreement with the Bioethics Committee for Animal Experimentation in Biomedical Research and in accordance with procedures approved by the ENEA Bioethical Committee according to the EU directive 2010/63/EU. The mice belonged to a colony housed at CR ENEA Casaccia and maintained for experimentation based on the authorization N. 80/2017-PR released (on February 2, 2017) by the Italian Ministry of Health. Feeding female mosquitoes on the blood of human hosts (i.e., the authors RM, EL, GL, and MC) during the experiments was also approved by the ENEA Bioethical Committee.
: Two of the authors (EL and MC) are present in Additional fileInternalRef removed: Figure S1 and consent to the publication of the image.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.