Cordon sanitaire or laissez faire: Differential dispersal of young and old females of the malaria vector Anopheles funestus Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) in southern Mozambique

African Entomology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Charlwood, J D ^a,e   Mendis, C ^a,b   Thompson, R ^b   Begtrup, K ^a   Cuamba, N ^b   Dgedge, M ^b   Gamage Mendis, A ^a,b   Hunt, R H ^c   Sinden, R E ^d   Hogh B ^a  

^a Epidemiology Research Unit   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Centro de Endemias   (Sao Tome and Principe)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; Dispersal; Malaria; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031781534     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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