Surveillance study of vector species on board passenger ships, risk factors related to infestations

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mouchtouri, Varvara A ^a,c   Anagnostopoulou, Rimma ^b   Samanidou Voyadjoglou, Anna ^c   Theodoridou, Kalliopi ^c   Hatzoglou, Chrissi ^a   Kremastinou, Jenny ^c   Hadjichristodoulou, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Prefecture of Piraeus ^*  (Greece)

^c NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BLATTA GERMANICA; BUTTERFLY; CIMEX; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FLEA; FLY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFESTATION; INSECT; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE VECTOR; PEST CONTROL; PLAGUE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RODENT; SHIP; SPIDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC SAFETY; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; RAT;

PESTICIDE;

ANIMALS; COCKROACHES; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RATS; RISK FACTORS; SHIPS;

EID: 43149111296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-100     Document Type: Article

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