Relative abundance of Culex quinquefasciatus (diptera: culicidae) with reference to infection and infectivity rate from the rural and urban areas of east and west godavari districts of Andhra Pradesh, India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 702-710

  Murty, U Suryanarayana ^a,b   Sai, K S K ^c   Satya Kumar, D V R ^a   Sriram, K ^a   Rao, K Madhusudhan ^a   Krishna, D ^b   Murty, B S N ^b  

^a Bioinformatics Group   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MOSQUITO; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CULEX; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; URBAN HEALTH; WATER; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0041700042     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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