Prevention and control of Aedes aegypti-borne diseases: Lesson learned from past successes and failures

Asia-Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 111-114

  Gubler, Duane J ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

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