Impact of different housing structures on filarial transmission in rural areas of southern India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 587-590

  Satya Kumar, D V R ^a   Krishna, D ^a   Suryanarayana Murty, U ^a   Sai, K S K ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Government of India   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ECOLOGY; FILARIA; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSING; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RURAL AREA; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 8444228608     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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