Mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) in the small village where a human case of Venezuelan equine encephalitis was recorded;Mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae) en el caserío de Chingalé, Santander, donde se registró un caso humano de encefalitis equina venezolana

Biomedica

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-244

  Ferro, Cristina ^a   Olano, Víctor Alberto ^a   Ahumada, Martha ^a   Weaver, Scott ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Colombia; Culex; Encephalitis; Encephalitis virus; Venezuelan equine

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; CRICETINAE; CULEX PEDROI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; MELANOCONION; PSOROPHORA CONFINNIS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 51349111920     PISSN: 01204157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v28i2.94     Document Type: Article

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