Artificial lighting as a vector attractant and cause of disease diffusion

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1503-1506

  Barghini, Alessandro ^a,b   de Medeiros, Bruno A S ^b  

^a Instituto de Biociências and Instituto de Eletrotécnica e Energia ^*  (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Electricity; Insect; Leishmaniasis; Lighting; Malaria; Vector

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTRICITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NIGHT; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODIDAE; REVIEW; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS; LIGHTING; MALARIA; RISK FACTORS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 78149313511     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002115     Document Type: Review

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