Dengue cases and Aedes aegypti indices in Trinidad, West Indies

Acta Tropica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 174-180

  Chadee, D D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Dengue cases; Dengue transmission; Mosquito indices; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; MOSQUITO;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CLIMATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DENSITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOUSING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DENGUE; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 70249124134     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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