The effect of pyrethroid impregnated mosquito nets on field malaria vector populations in experimental huts and in individual local houses

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 610-616

  Prasittisuk, Malinee ^a   Prasittisuk, Chusak ^b   Pothichiti, Veerapol ^c   Aum aung, Boonserm ^a   Mongklangkul, Piti ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b WHO SEARO   (India)

^c Malaria Center 1 Phrabuddhabat   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

ARTICLE; BED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; THAILAND;

BEDDING AND LINENS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PYRETHRINS; THAILAND;

EID: 0030225007     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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