The ecology of mosquitoes in an irrigated vegetable farm in Kumasi, Ghana: Abundance, productivity and survivorship

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Afrane, Yaw A ^a,b   Lawson, Bernard W ^c   Brenya, Ruth ^c   Kruppa, Thomas ^b   Yan, Guiyun ^d  

^a Bondo University College   (Kenya)

^b KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^c KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Ghana; Irrigated farms; Kumasi; Mosquito productivity; Urban malaria

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; GHANA; IRRIGATED VEGETABLE FARM; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; GHANA; HUMANS; LARVA; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VEGETABLES;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 84867364681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-233     Document Type: Article

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