Salinity-tolerant larvae of mosquito vectors in the tropical coast of Jaffna, Sri Lanka and the effect of salinity on the toxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis to Aedes aegypti larvae

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jude, Pavilupillai J ^a   Tharmasegaram, Tharmatha ^a   Sivasubramaniyam, Gobika ^a   Senthilnanthanan, Meena ^a   Kannathasan, Selvam ^a   Raveendran, Selvarajah ^a   Ramasamy, Ranjan ^b   Surendran, Sinnathamby N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Bacillus thuringiensis; Dengue; Jaffna; Mosquito vectors; Salinity; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS TOXIN; FRESH WATER; LARVICIDAL AGENT; WATER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT; LABORATORY; LARVA; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO LARVA; NONHUMAN; SALINITY; SRI LANKA; TROPICS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ECOSYSTEM; FILARIASIS; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; SALINITY; SALT-TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SRI LANKA; VIRUS DISEASES;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; LUTZIA;

EID: 84869882890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-269     Document Type: Article

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