Malaria vectors in Lake Victoria and adjacent habitats in Western Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Minakawa, Noboru ^a   Dida, Gabriel O ^b   Sonye, George O ^c   Futami, Kyoko ^a   Njenga, Sammy M ^d  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c Springs of Hope ^*  (Kenya)

^d KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DISEASE CARRIER; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; HABITAT; KENYA; LAGOON; LAKE; LARVA; MALARIA; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; SPECIES HABITAT; VECTOR CONTROL; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; EICHHORNIA; ENVIRONMENT; PARASITOLOGY;

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ECOSYSTEM; EICHHORNIA; ENVIRONMENT; INSECT VECTORS; KENYA; LAKES; MALARIA;

EID: 84857846547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032725     Document Type: Article

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