Bancroftian filariasis: House-to-house variation in the vectors and transmission - And the relationship to human infection - In an endemic community of coastal Tanzania

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-60

  Rwegoshora, R T ^a   Simonsen, P E ^b   Meyrowitsch, D W ^c   Malecela Lazaro, M N ^d   Michael, E ^e   Pedersen, E M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FILARIASIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MICROFILARIASIS; MOSQUITO; PREVALENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TANZANIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; CHILD; CULEX; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULEX; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FILARIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; TANZANIA;

EID: 33947520059     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485907X154610     Document Type: Article

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