Transmission of bancroftian filariasis in tea agro-ecosystem of Assam, India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 581-584

  Mahanta, B ^a   Handique, R ^a   Narain, K ^b   Dutta, P ^b   Mahanta, J ^b,c  

^a DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Regional Medical Research Center   (India)

^c REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTIASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TEA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; CULEX; ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; PREVALENCE; TEA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0035469517     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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