Insect vectors and rodents arriving in China aboard international transport

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-244

  Song, Mingchang ^a   Wang, Baoling ^a   Liu, Jianzhong ^a   Gratz, Norman ^a  

^a China Inspection and Quarantine ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT; ANOPHELES; ARTHROPOD; CESTODE; CHINA; COCKROACH; CTENOCEPHALIDES; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; FIJI; FLY; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT; GUAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; INFORMATION; INSECT; JAPAN; LAW; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PARASITE VECTOR; RAILWAY; REVIEW; RODENT; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SHIP; TRAVEL; TYPHUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0042161524     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2003.40603     Document Type: Review

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