Application of the pupal/demographic-survey methodology in an area of Havana, Cuba, with low densities of Aedes aegypti (L.)

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Bisset, J A ^a   Marquetti, M C ^a   Suarez S ^a   Rodriguez M M ^a   Padmanabha, H ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DEMOGRAPHY; DENGUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LARVA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH; HOUSEHOLD; INSECT; MOSQUITO; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; WATER SUPPLY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; STEGOMYIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CUBA; DENGUE; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUPA; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; URBAN HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33748657608     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X105507     Document Type: Article

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