Integrated malaria vector control with microbial larvicides and insecticide-treated nets in western Kenya: A controlled trial

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 655-665

  Fillinger, Ulrike ^a   Ndenga, Bryson ^b   Githeko, Andrew ^b   Lindsay, Steven W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; LARVICIDAL AGENT;

ADULT; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BASELINE SURVEY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INFECTIVITY; INSECTICIDE; LARVA; MALARIA; PARASITIC DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UPLAND REGION; VALLEY;

ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BED NET; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; LARVA; MALARIA; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70249125140     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.08.055632     Document Type: Article

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