The suitability of clay pots for indoor sampling of mosquitoes in an arid area in northern Tanzania

Acta Tropica

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 197-199

  van den Bijllaardt, Wouter ^a   ter Braak, Roel ^a   Shekalaghe, Seif ^b,c   Otieno, Silas ^b   Mahande, Aneth ^b   Sauerwein, Robert ^a   Takken, Willem ^d   Bousema, Teun ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anopheles arabiensis; CDC light trap; Clay pot; Heterogeneity; Malaria; Mosquitoes; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; HETEROGENEITY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; SAMPLING;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; EXPOSURE; HOUSEHOLD; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; SAMPLING; TANZANIA;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; FEMALE; LIGHT; MOSQUITO CONTROL; TANZANIA; WATER;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67349095789     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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