Survey of personal protection measures against mosquitoes among Australian Defense Force personnel deployed to East Timor

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-230

  Frances, Stephen P ^a   Auliff, Alyson M ^a   Edstein, Michael D ^a   Cooper, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ARMY MALARIA INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; INSECT REPELLENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MOSQUITO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOLDIER;

EID: 0037339063     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.3.227     Document Type: Article

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