The role of four anopheline species (Diptera: Culicidae) in malaria transmission in coastal Tanzania

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 152-158

  Temu, E A ^a,b,d   Minjas, J N ^b   Coetzee, M ^a   Hunt, R H ^a   Shiff, C J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anopheles arabiensis; Anopheles funestus; Anopheles gambiae; Anopheles merus; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium malariae; Sporozoite density; Sporozoite rates; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROZOITE; TANZANIA;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MERUS; ARACHNIDA; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031894988     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)90724-6     Document Type: Article

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