Dengue control: The challenge ahead

Future Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-253

  Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dengue; insecticide; vaccine; vector control

Indexed keywords

DENGUE VACCINE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EDITORIAL; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULICIDAE; DENGUE; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE;

EID: 79953312306     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.10     Document Type: Editorial

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