Insecticide-treated materials for malaria control in Latin America: To use or not to use?

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 565-570

  Kroeger, Axel ^a   Gonzalez, Martha ^b   Ordóñez González, José ^a,c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ctro Invest y Estud de la Salud   (Nicaragua)

^c Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Insecticide treated bednets; Lambdacyhalothrin; Malaria; Nicaragua; Plasmodium vivax; Protective efficacy

Indexed keywords

CYHALOTHRIN; INSECTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; NEWBORN; NICARAGUA; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANOPHELES ALBIMANUS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0033401508     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(99)90048-2     Document Type: Article

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