Community-based rice ecosystem management for suppressing vector anophelines in Sri Lanka

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 995-1006

  Yasuoka, Junko ^a   Levins, Richard ^a   Mangione, Thomas W ^a   Spielman, Andrew ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Ecosystem management; Mosquito control; Rice farmers; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; RICE; SRI LANKA; VECTOR CONTROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOSQUITO CONTROL; ORYZA SATIVA; SEASONS; SRI LANKA;

ANOPHELES (GENUS);

EID: 33748361197     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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