Malaria control with transgenic mosquitoes

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 0164-0168

  Marshall, John M ^a   Taylor, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOSQUITO; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CULICIDAE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLASMODIUM;

EID: 61449219801     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000020     Document Type: Review

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