The Buen Pastor cemetery in Trujillo, Venezuela: Measuring dengue vector output from a public area

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 597-603

  Abe, Mayumi ^a   McCall, P J ^a   Lenhart, Audrey ^a   Villegas, Elci ^b   Kroeger, Axel ^a,c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aedes; Cemetery; Dengue; Dengue haemorrhagic fever; Transmission; Urban; Vector control; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

GLASS; PLASTIC; WATER;

CEMETERY; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE PREVALENCE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CALCULATION; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFESTATION; INSECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; URBAN POPULATION; VENEZUELA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOOLOGY;

SOUTH AMERICA; TRUJILLO; VENEZUELA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 20444419039     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01428.x     Document Type: Article

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