mosquito bite

collocation in English

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mosquito
noun[C]
uk
/məˈskiː.təʊ/us
/məˈskiː.t̬oʊ/
a small flying insect that bites people and animals and sucks ...
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bite
noun
uk
/baɪt/us
/baɪt/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofmosquitoandbitefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They were inoculated either with sporozoites (generally throughmosquitobite) or with infected blood.
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After the virus enters the body via amosquitobite, the virus undergoes local replication at the skin site where virus entered the body.
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Once it bites a human, it dies but leaves an irritated area or bump like amosquitobite.
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Although they are stingless, the bees do bite and can leave welts similar to amosquitobite.
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The following year, she suffered amosquitobitewhich turned septic, prompting the doctors to offer skin grafts.
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The bump and redness immediately following amosquitobiteare a good example of this reaction, which occurs seconds after challenge of the mast cell by an allergen.
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We assume that males and females are equally exposed to mosquito bites.
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This response will range from slight reddening of the skin to a full-blown hive (called wheal and flare) in more sensitive patients similar to amosquitobite.
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It also raises an ethical problem, because it may expose the catchers to more mosquito bites and hence an increased risk of contracting malaria.
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Every dot represents a simulation (100 mosquito bites on an infected person).
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It is a place where a mosquito bites you at ten in the morning; you then get a fever, and you are dead at three in the afternoon.
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I am advised that, apart from occasional casualties arising from the inflammation of mosquito bites, mosquitoes in this country are not known to carry disease other than malaria.
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They likely carried the disease from the island where it was endemic, and it was rapidly transmitted by mosquito bites to other residents.
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The primary method of disease prevention is minimizing mosquito bites, as the disease is only transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Later, he arrives at meetings with mosquito bites on his face.
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The disease is spread from person to person via mosquito bites.
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It's been long, damp, mosquito bitten battle to the finish and no one wants to lose the war now.
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This has a relaxing effect on the muscles and also helps in calming the effects of mosquito bites.
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Travellers should take the most appropriate anti-malarial prophylaxis medication and be extra vigilant over measures to prevent mosquito bites.
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The settlers suffered from inadequate food rations and infected mosquito bites.
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