Characterization of malaria transmission by vector populations for improved interventions during the dry season in the Kpone-on-Sea area of coastal Ghana

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tchouassi, David P ^a,b   Quakyi, Isabella A ^a   Addison, Ebenezer A ^a   Bosompem, Kwabena M ^b   Wilson, Michael D ^b   Appawu, Maxwell A ^b   Brown, Charles A ^b   Boakye, Daniel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae M molecular form; Biting pattern; EIR; Ghana; Malaria transmission; Parity rate; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES PHAROENSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GHANA; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MALARIA; MOLECULE; OVARY; OVIPARITY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIBLING; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SEASONS;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 84866551577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-212     Document Type: Article

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