Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting on Malaria Control: Bednets or Spraying? Manson House, London, 21 January 1999: Background and trial in Tanzania

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 453-454

  Curtis, C F ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bednets; Disease control; House spraying; Insecticides; Lambda cyhalothrin; Malaria; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

BED NET; CHINA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALARIA CONTROL; SPOROZOITE; SYMPOSIUM; TANZANIA;

EID: 0032720429     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90333-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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