Are insecticide-treated bednets more protective against Plasmodium falciparum than Plasmodium vivax-infected mosquitoes?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bockarie, Moses J ^a,b   Dagoro, Henry ^a  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BED NET; IRELAND; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPOROZOITE;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEDDING AND LINENS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646441604     PISSN: 14752875     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-15     Document Type: Article

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