Entomological indices of malaria transmission in Chikhwawa district, Southern Malawi

Malaria Journal

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mzilahowa, Themba ^a,b,c   Hastings, Ian M ^a   Molyneux, Malcolm E ^a,b,c   McCall, Philip J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MALAWI LIVERPOOL WELLCOME TRUST CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Malawi)

^c Malaria Alert Centre (MAC)   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Africa; Anopheles; EIR; falciparum; Gambiae; Malaria; Malariae; Malawi; Plasmodium; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES QUADRIANNULATUS; ARTICLE; BED NET; BITE; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INOCULATION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALAWI; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYRETHRUM; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPOROZOITE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CATTLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALAWI; MOSQUITO CONTROL; OOCYSTS; PLASMODIUM; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SPOROZOITES;

EID: 84869224908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-380     Document Type: Article

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