Development of an indicator to evaluate the impact, on a community-based Aedes aegypti control intervention, of improved cleaning of water-storage containers by householders

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 317-329

  Chan, A S T ^a   Sherman, C ^b   Lozano, R C ^b   Fernandez E A ^b   Winch, P J ^a   Leontsini, E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Laboratorio Central   (Honduras)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLEANING; CONTAINER; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HONDURAS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MONITORING; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031981715     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1998.11813296     Document Type: Article

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