Malaria vector control: current and future strategies

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 101-104

  Takken, Willem ^a   Knols, Bart G J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; INSECTICIDE; MALARIA VACCINE;

ANOPHELES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VECTOR CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEDDING AND LINENS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 60449116058     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2008.12.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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