Usage of personal-protection measures against mosquitoes and the low prevalences of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemia in the Indian city of Chennai

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 391-397

  Kumar, K N Vijay ^a   Ramaiah, K D ^a  

^a VECTOR CONTROL RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HEALTH CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MOSQUITO; PREVALENCE; SANITATION; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN HEALTH; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 47549096696     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X278892     Document Type: Article

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