Fishing out malaria in Assam, northeastern India: hope or hype?

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 839-840

  Dev, V ^a   Dash, A P ^a   Hojai, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b Directorate of Health Services   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES BAIMAII; ANOPHELES CULICIFACIES; ANOPHELES DIRUS; ANOPHELES FLUVIATILIS; ANOPHELES MINIMUS; BED NET; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FISH; HUMAN; INDIA; LARVIVORE; LETTER; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FISHES; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46049104585     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.019     Document Type: Letter

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