Impact of cattle keeping on human biting rate of anopheline mosquitoes and malaria transmission around Ziway, Ethiopia

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 485-490

  Seyoum, A ^a   Balcha, F ^a   Balkew, M ^a   Ali, A ^a   Gebre Michael, T ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CATTLE; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SPLENOMEGALY; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GOAT; HEALTH; HOUSING; INSECT BITE; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANOPHELES; CATTLE; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GOATS; HOUSING; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; SEASONS; SPLENOMEGALY; SUBURBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036770126     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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