Limburger cheese as an attractant for the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae s.s.

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 159-161

  Knols, Bart G J ^a   De Jong, Ruurd ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHEESE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 0029947481     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10002-8     Document Type: Article

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