Anopheles mortality is both age- and Plasmodium-density dependent: Implications for malaria transmission

Malaria Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Dawes, Emma J ^a   Churcher, Thomas S ^a   Zhuang, Shijie ^a   Sinden, Robert E ^a   Bas̃ez, María Gloria ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FEEDING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANOPHELES; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DISEASE VECTORS; INTESTINES; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; SALIVARY GLANDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450284505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-8-228     Document Type: Article

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