Insecticide-treated vertical mesh barriers reduce the number of biting mosquitoes

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 26-32

  Faiman, R ^a   Warburg, A ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Culex perexiguus; Culicine mosquitoes; Insecticide impregnated nets; Mosquito control; Vertical barrier; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAIT; BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BLOOD; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISEASE VECTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECTICIDE; MOSQUITO; RURAL AREA; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); VIRAL DISEASE; WIND VELOCITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULEX; DRUG EFFECT; HOUSING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; MOSQUITO; TIME;

ANIMALS; CULEX; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; ISRAEL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS; TIME FACTORS;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84856231929     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2011.00966.x     Document Type: Article

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