DDT is back: Let us spray!

FASEB Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2427-2429

  Weissmann, Gerald ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE;

ARTHROPOD; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALARIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VECTOR CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; DDT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; REFUGEES; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33845603007     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.06-1201ufm     Document Type: Editorial

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