Malaria vectors in Angola: Distribution of species and molecular forms of the Anopheles gambiae complex, their pyrethroid insecticide knockdown resistance (kdr) status and Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite rates

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cuamba, Nelson ^a,b   Kwang, Shik Choi ^a   Townson, Harold ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGOLA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES VECTOR; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE FREQUENCY; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASHORE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPOROZOITE; SYMPATRY; TROPICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANGOLA; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 33646366143     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-2     Document Type: Article

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