Arthropod-borne diseases: Vector control in the genomics era

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 262-268

  Hill, Catherine A ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^b   Stansfield, Sally K ^c   Collins, Frank H ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CULEX; DENGUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENCEPHALITIS; FILARIASIS; GENOMICS; GLOSSINA; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE VECTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODIDAE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULIUM; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VECTOR CONTROL; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 14544306002     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1101     Document Type: Article

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