Malaria and its vectors in the Caribbean: The continuing challenge of the disease forty-five years after eradication from the islands

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 462-469

  Rawlins, S C ^a   Hinds, A ^a   Rawlins, J M ^b  

^a Caribbean Epidemiology Centre   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERADICATION THERAPY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION RISK; TREND STUDY; ANIMAL; CARIBBEAN; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CARIBBEAN REGION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65249122419     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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