Human and other faeces as breeding media of the trachoma vector Musca sorbens

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 314-320

  Emerson, P M ^a   Bailey, R L ^a   Walraven, G E L ^a   Lindsay, S W ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Chlamydia trachomatis; Faeces; Flies; Fly breeding media; Fly control; Human eye infection; Musca sorbens; Sanitation; The Gambia; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES; GAMBIA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACHOMA;

BREEDING SITE; DISEASE VECTOR; FECES; FLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DOGS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FECES; FEMALE; GAMBIA; GOATS; HORSES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCIDAE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; TRACHOMA; WEATHER;

GAMBIA;

EID: 0034814168     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-283X.2001.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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