Desiccated vector mosquitoes used for the surveillance of Japanese encephalitis virus activity in endemic southern India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 286-290

  Tewari, S C ^a   Thenmozhi, V ^a   Arunachalam, N ^a   Philip Samuel, P ^a   Tyagi, B K ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Culex vishnui subgroup; Desiccated mosquitoes; Japanese encephalitis virus; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN; DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; MONITORING; MOSQUITO; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; VILLAGE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; INDIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOSQUITO;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CULEX; DESICCATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

CULEX VISHNUI; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 39849083919     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02038.x     Document Type: Article

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