Insecticide treated mosquito nets for malaria control in India-experience from a tribal area on operational feasibility and uptake

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-171

  Jambulingam, P ^a   Gunasekaran, K ^a   Sahu, S S ^a   Vijayakumar, T ^a  

^a VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Cost recovery; India; ITNs; Orissa; Re treatment; Usage

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149121368     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762008005000009     Document Type: Article

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