Transmission dynamics of malaria in four selected ecological zones of Nigeriain the rainy season

Annals of African Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Okwa, Omolade O ^a,b   Akinmolayan, F I ^a   Carter, V ^b   Hurd, H ^b  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecotypes; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Transmission dynamics; Vectors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES MELAS; ANOPHELES MOUCHETI NIGERIENSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; ENTOMOLOGICAL INOCULATION RATE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MANGROVE; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN FOREST; SAVANNA; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOROZOITE; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NIGERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 70349117378     PISSN: 15963519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.55756     Document Type: Article

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