Prevalence and distribution of anopheline mosquitoes in malaria endemic areas of Asir region, Saudi Arabia

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 240-247

  Abdoon, A M M O ^a   Alshahrani, A M ^a  

^a Dis Vectors Control Administration   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 17144365457     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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