Changes in malaria vector densities over a twenty-three year period in Mae Hong Son province, northern Thailand

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 316-324

  Suwonkerd, Wannapa ^a   Tsuda, Yoshio ^b   Overgaard, Hans J ^c   Chawprom, Srisucha ^a   Tuno, Nobuko ^d   Prajakwong, Somsak ^a   Takagi, Masahiro ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE INCIDENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THAILAND; VECTOR CONTROL; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 4544282908     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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