Malaria entomological profile in Tanzania from 1950 to 2010: A review of mosquito distribution, vectorial capacity and insecticide resistance

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5 SUPPL.ISS, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Kabula, Bilali ^a,b   Derua, Yahya A ^a   Tungu, Patrick ^a   Massue, Dennis J ^a   Sambu, Edward ^a   Stanley, Grades ^a   Mosha, Franklin W ^b   Kisinza, William N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Inoculation rate; Insecticide resistance; Malaria; Mosquito; Sporozoite; Tanzania; Vectorial capacity

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; PYRETHROID; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CYTOGENETICS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INOCULATION; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOROZOITE; SYMPATRY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TANZANIA; VECTOR CONTROL; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 84859457850     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/thrb.v13i5.2     Document Type: Review

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