Control of malaria vectors with the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen in a gem-mining area in Sri Lanka

Acta Tropica

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 265-276

  Yapabandara, A M G M ^a,b   Curtis, C F ^b   Wickramasinghe, M B ^c   Fernando, W P ^c  

^a Regional Office   (Sri Lanka)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Anti Malaria Campaign ^*  (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

An. subpictus; An. varuna; Anopheles culicifacies; Insect growth regulators; Larval control; Malaria control; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

PYRIPROXYFEN;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; MALARIA; MINING;

ADOLESCENT; ANOPHELE VARUNA; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES CULCIFACIES; ANOPHELES SUBPICTUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MINING; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SRI LANKA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSECT VECTORS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALARIA; MALE; MINING; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PYRIDINES; SRI LANKA;

SRI LANKA;

ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES SUBPICTUS; ANOPHELES VARUNA; INSECTA; VARUNA;

EID: 0035930384     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00178-4     Document Type: Article

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