Permethrin-treated bed nets do not have a 'mass-killing effect' on village populations of Anopheles gambiae s.l. in The Gambia

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 373-378

  Quiñones, Martha L ^a,b,d   Lines, Jo ^b   Thomson, Madeleine C ^a,c   Jawara, Musa ^a   Greenwood, Brian M ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Bed nets; Children; Malaria; Permethrin; Plasmodium falciparun; The Gambia; Vector control

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; PERMETHRIN;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BED NET; BITE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; GAMBIA; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE VECTOR; SPOROZOITE; VECTOR CONTROL; ZOOLOGY;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031683960     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)91053-7     Document Type: Article

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