Vector transmission heterogeneity and the population dynamics and control of lymphatic filariasis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 673, Issue , 2010, Pages 13-31

  Michael, Edwin ^a   Gambhir, Manoj ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOPHELES; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BITE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ERADICATION THERAPY; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LIFE CYCLE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VECTOR PARASITE INFECTION RELATIONSHIP; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRUGIA; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BRUGIA; CULICIDAE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 77955878815     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6064-1_2     Document Type: Article

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