Malaria vectors in the Brazilian Amazon: Anopheles of the subgenus Nyssorhynchus

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 87-94

  Tadei, Wanderli Pedro ^a   Thatcher, Bedsy Dutary ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Malaria vectors; Plasmodium: Amazon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAZIL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONS;

EID: 0034153840     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652000000200005     Document Type: Article

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