Community health nurses battle an ancient nuisance

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 598-606

  Lefferts, Anne ^a   Parkhill, Andrea ^a   Cadigan, Darlene ^a   Clayton, Marianne ^a   Dugan Merkler, Maggie ^b  

^a Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIMEX; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; ECTOPARASITOSIS; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; NURSING;

ANIMALS; BEDBUGS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; INSERVICE TRAINING;

EID: 73349127459     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000364182.84473.cb     Document Type: Article

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