Species composition and biting activities of anthropophilic Anopheles mosquitoes and their role in malaria transmission in a holo-endemic area of southwestern Nigeria

African Entomology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-232

  Awolola, T S ^a,c   Ibrahim, K ^b   Okorie, T ^b   Koekemoer, L L ^c   Hunt, R H ^c   Coetzee, M ^c  

^a NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anopheles arabiensis; Anopheles funestus; Anopheles gambiae; Anopheles hancocki; Anopheles mosquitoes; ELISA; Nigeria; PCR; Sporozoite rates

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; FUNESTUS GROUP; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 0344496928     PISSN: 10213589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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