Sticky bottle traps: A simple and effective method for collecting adult phlebotomine sand flies from rodent burrows in a Leishmania-Endemic Region of Egypt

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-335

  Obenauer, Peter J ^a   Villinski, Jeffery T ^a   Zayed, Alia ^a   Watany, Noha ^a   El Hossary, Shabaan S ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

bottle trap; Leishmania major; Phlebotomus papatasi; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EGYPT; INSECT CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; LEISHMANIASIS; PHLEBOTOMUS; RODENT;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIASIS; PHLEBOTOMUS; RODENTIA;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; RODENTIA;

EID: 80052944197     PISSN: 8756971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2987/11-6152.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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