Plasmodium falciparum transmission and aridity: A Kenyan experience from the dry lands of Baringo and its implications for Anopheles arabiensis control

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mala, Albert O ^a,b,e   Irungu, Lucy W ^b   Shililu, Josephat I ^a   Muturi, Ephantus J ^c   Mbogo, Charles M ^c   Njagi, Joseph K ^d   Mukabana, Wolfgang R ^a,b   Githure, John I ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES COUSTANI; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES PHAROENSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HABITAT; HABITAT QUALITY; HOUSING; HUMAN; INOCULATION; KENYA; LARVA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METEOROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMIARID CLIMATE; VECTOR CONTROL; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CLIMATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLIMATE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS;

EID: 79955816075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-121     Document Type: Article

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