Susceptibility of Lutzomyia longipalpis (diptera: psychodidae) to selected insecticides in an endemic focus of visceral leishmaniasis in Venezuela

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 335-341

  Mazzarri, Milena B ^a   Feliciangeli, M Dora ^b   Maroli, Michele ^c   Hernandez, Abel ^a   Bravo, Arturo ^b  

^a Div de Control de Vectores   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHODIDAE; VENEZUELA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PSYCHODIDAE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 0031300131     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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