Can vector control play a useful supplementary role against bancroftian filariasis?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-143

  Maxwell, C A ^a   Mohammed, Khalfan ^b   Kisumku, Uledi ^b   Curtis, C F ^a  

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

^b Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; POLYSTYRENE;

DISEASE CONTROL; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE; MOSQUITO;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; MICROFILARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; TANZANIA; VECTOR CONTROL;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; DRUGS; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EVALUATION; EVALUATION REPORT; FILARIASIS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; HEALTH; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TANZANIA; TREATMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BACILLUS; CULEX; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; FILARIASIS; FILARICIDES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POLYSTYRENES; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0033017656     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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