Increasing incidence of malaria in the Negro River basin, Brazilian Amazon

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 556-562

  Cabral, A C ^a   Fe N F ^b   Suarez Mutis M C ^a   Boia M N ^a,c   Carvalho Costa, F A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Gerency of Entomology   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Anopheles darlingi; Malaria; Plasmodium falciparum; Plasmodium vivax; Yanomami Indians

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES DARLINGI; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMBRYO; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCIDENCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; RIVER BASIN; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

ANOPHELES DARLINGI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 77954542460     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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