Large-scale use of mosquito larval source management for malaria control in Africa: A cost analysis

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Worrall, Eve ^a   Fillinger, Ulrike ^b,c  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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

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

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis; cost analyses; larval control; Malaria; source management; vector control

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; LARVICIDAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; COST; LARVA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; RURAL AREA; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BED NET; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; MOSQUITO NETS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80455131283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-338     Document Type: Article

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