Surveillance of vector populations and malaria transmission during the 2009/10 El Niño event in the western Kenya highlands: Opportunities for early detection of malaria hyper-transmission

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ototo, Ednah N ^a,b   Githeko, Andrew K ^a   Wanjala, Christine L ^a,b   Scott, Thomas W ^c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; KENYA; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITE; VECTOR CONTROL; ZOOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL NINO; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; DISEASE VECTORS; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 79960558333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-144     Document Type: Article

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