Abundance and dynamics of anopheline larvae in a highland malarious area of south-central Ethiopia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Animut, Abebe ^a,b   Gebre Michael, Teshome ^b   Balkew, Meshesha ^b   Lindtjørn, Bernt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WELL WATER;

ALTITUDE; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ETHIOPIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; INFECTION RISK; LARVA; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SPECIES; STREAM (RIVER);

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ECOSYSTEM; ETHIOPIA; LARVA; MALARIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALGAE; ANOPHELES CINEREUS;

EID: 84862217570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-117     Document Type: Article

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