Nature limits filarial transmission

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Chandra, Goutam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BREEDING; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIA PAHANGI; BRUGIA TIMORI; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CULEX; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DEFORESTATION; DENSITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FILARIA; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICS; URBANIZATION; VECTOR CONTROL; WATER POLLUTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

BRUGIA MALAYI; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 64949183367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-1-13     Document Type: Article

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