Comparative efficacy of house curtains impregnated with permethrin, lambdacyhalothrin or bendiocarb against the vector of bancroftian filariasis, Culex quinquefasciatus, in Matara, Sri Lanka

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-104

  Weerasooriya, Mirani V ^a   Munasinghe, C S ^b   Mudalige, Malka P S ^a   Curtis, C F ^b   Samarawickrema, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bendiocarb; Culex quinquefasciatus; Insecticide impregnated curtains; Lambdacyhalothrin; Permethrin; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

BENDIOCARB; CYHALOTHRIN; INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX; FILARIASIS; HOUSING; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SRI LANKA; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 0029879938     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(96)90101-7     Document Type: Article

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