Raised houses reduce mosquito bites

Malaria Journal

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-6

  Charlwood, J Derek ^a   Pinto, Joao ^b   Ferrara, Patrica R ^c   Sousa, Carla A ^b   Ferreira, Conceicao ^d   Gil, Vilfrido ^d   Do Rosário, Virgillo E ^b  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^c SIMA Project   (Mozambique)

^d Centro Nacional de Endemias   (Sao Tome and Principe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; INSECT BITE; MOSQUITO; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VECTOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; BODY SIZE; COITUS; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; FORELIMB; INSECT SWARM; MALE; MATING; MOZAMBIQUE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COPULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GROUPS BY AGE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE; SPOROZOITE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOZAMBIQUE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WING;

EID: 3042808198     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-2-1     Document Type: Article

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