Estimating sporozoite rates by examining pooled samples of mosquitoes

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 359-360

  Gu, Wei Dong ^a  

^a Second Military Medical University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Estimation from pooled mosquito samples; Malaria; Sporozoite rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMMUNOASSAY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPOROZOITE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL; CULICIDAE; IMMUNOASSAY; MALARIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029162467     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0035-9203(95)90007-1     Document Type: Article

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