Potential transmission of bancroftian filariasis in urban Thailand

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 847-849

  Swaddiwudhipong, Witaya ^a   Tatip, Yuvadee ^a   Meethong, Maneerat ^a   Preecha, Poovanart ^b   Kobasa, Theerayot ^b  

^a MAE SOT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^b Filariasis Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; MYANMAR; PARASITOLOGY; THAILAND; URBAN POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CULEX; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MYANMAR; THAILAND; URBAN POPULATION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0030309007     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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