Responses of male and female mosquitoes to repellents in the World Health Organization insecticide irritability test system

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-64

  Rutledge, L C ^a   Echano, N M ^a   Gupta, R K ^b  

^a Hq US Army Med Res Materiel C ^*  (United States)

^b Hq US Army Med Res Materiel C   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Aedes aegypti; Aedes taeniorhynchus; Deet; Insecticides; Irritability; Permethrin; Repellents

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INSECT REPELLENTS; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0033090808     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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