Seasonal abundance of anopheline mosquitoes and their association with rainfall and malaria along the matap River, Amapí, Brazil

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-349

  Galardo, A K R ^a   Zimmerman, R H ^b   Lounibos, L P ^b   Young, L J ^c   Galardo, C D ^a   Arruda, M ^d   D'Almeida Couto, A A R ^e  

^a Instituto de Pesquisas Cientificas e Tecnologicas do Estado do Amapa   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e Superintendência de Vigilância em Saúde Do Estado Do Amapá SVS AP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abundance; Anophelines; GLMM analysis; Malaria; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATOLOGY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENTOMOLOGY; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; RIVER; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; RAIN; RIVERS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

AMAPA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANOPHELES DARLINGI; ANOPHELES NUNEZTOVARI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA;

EID: 70450278937     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00839.x     Document Type: Article

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