Seasonal abundance of larval stage of Culex species mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in an endemic area of Japanese encephalitis in mysore, India

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2468-2472

  Fakoorziba, Mohammad Reza ^a   Achuthan, Vijayan V ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Culex sp.; India; Japanese encephalitis; Seasonal abundance

Indexed keywords

CULEX BITAENIORHYNCHUS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; CULEX VISHNUI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 33845236168     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2006.2468.2472     Document Type: Article

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