Long-lasting insecticidal nets fail at household level to reduce abundance of sandfly vector Phlebotomus argentipes in treated houses in Bihar (India)

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 953-958

  Dinesh, Diwakar S ^a   Das, Pradeep ^a   Picado, Albert ^b   Davies, Clive ^b   Speybroeck, Niko ^c,d   Ostyn, Bart ^c   Boelaert, Marleen ^c   Coosemans, Marc ^c,e  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Indian subcontinent; Indoor residual spraying; Long lasting nets; Phlebotomus argentipes; Sandfly control; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE;

ABUNDANCE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; IMPREGNATED BEDNET; INSECTICIDE; POPULATION DENSITY;

ARTICLE; BED NET; EPIDEMIC; FLY; HOUSEHOLD; INDIA; PHLEBOTOMUS; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BEDDING AND LINENS; FEMALE; HOUSING; INDIA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; NITRILES; PERMETHRIN; PHLEBOTOMUS; PYRETHRINS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; BIHAR; EURASIA; INDIA; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS ARGENTIPES;

EID: 44949167564     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02096.x     Document Type: Article

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