Landscape Surrounding Human Settlements and Anopheles albimanus (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance in Southern Chiapas, Mexico

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-48

  Rodriguez, Americo D ^a   Rodriguez, Mario H ^a   Hernandez, Juan E ^a   Dister, Sheri W ^a,b   Beck, Louisa R ^a,b   Rejmankova, Eliska ^a,c   Roberts, Donald R ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Anopheles albimanus; Disease nidality; Landscape

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ALBIMANUS; BOS TAURUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MEXICO; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0029678231     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/33.1.39     Document Type: Article

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