Field testing of different chemical combinations as odour baits for trapping wild mosquitoes in the Gambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Jawara, Musa ^a   Awolola, Taiwo S ^a,b   Pinder, Margaret ^a   Jeffries, David ^a   Smallegange, Renate C ^c   Takken, Willem ^c   Conway, David J ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Nigeria)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DRUG ADDITIVE; LACTIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; INORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; GAMBIA; INSECT CONTROL; MANSONIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; ODORS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 79957549270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019676     Document Type: Article

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