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Asked 20 April 2017

Does the blood type of a person play a role in mosquito attraction?

I am writing a research paper on dengue, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes, and the areas where it is most common and are populated by humans. I believe that to discover the most common areas accurately i would need to use a certain aspect of the mosquitoes that can be efficiently quantified, such as the type of blood that mosquitoes prefer.

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Fabiano Carvalho
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Dear Salvador, although the blood type may influence the attraction of mosquitoes, I believe there are several factors involved that need to be considered. Among them, I can highlight: the person's diet, sex, age, the metabolism of each, health status and hormonal question.
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Fabiano Carvalho
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Dear Salvador, although the blood type may influence the attraction of mosquitoes, I believe there are several factors involved that need to be considered. Among them, I can highlight: the person's diet, sex, age, the metabolism of each, health status and hormonal question.
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Aarti Rama
National Centre for Disease Control, India
Dear Salvador,
There are various literature dealing the preferred blood group purposely for its blood meal. Adult female mosquitoes rely on the protein in our blood for the production of eggs. It’s little surprise that some blood types may be more desirable than others. Research has found, in fact, that people with Type O blood are found to be twice as attractive to mosquitoes than those with Type A blood; Type B people were in the middle. In addition, 85 percent of people produce a secretion that signals what blood type they are; mosquitoes are drawn to those 85 percent more than the non-secretors, regardless of blood type.
You can refer to the following literatures
Hope you will be benefited from this.
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Asst.Prof.Muthanna Hadi Hussain
University of Al-Qadisiyah
I think so...
Fabiano Carvalho
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Dear Salvador, although the blood type may influence the attraction of mosquitoes, I believe there are several factors involved that need to be considered. Among them, I can highlight: the person's diet, sex, age, the metabolism of each, health status and hormonal question.
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