Environmental factors of households in five districts of Kerala affected by the epidemic of chikungunya fever in 2007

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-84

  Vijayakumar, K ^a   Anish, T S ^a   Sreekala, K N ^a   Ramachandran, Reshmi ^a   Philip, Rekha Rachel ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; INDIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953319182     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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