Altitude and the risk of bites from mosquitoes infected with malaria and filariasis among the Mianmin people of Papua New Guinea

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 8-10

  Attenborough, R D ^a   Burkot, T R ^b,c   Gardner, D S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Anopheles koliensis; Anopheles punctulatus; Filariasis; Malaria; Mianmin; Papua New Guinea; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Transmission; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ALTITUDE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FILARIASIS; INCUBATION TIME; INSECT BITE; LARVA; MALARIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; RISK; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 0031045291     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90373-4     Document Type: Article

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