The Flying Public Health Tool: Genetically Modified Mosquitoes and Malaria Control

Science as Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-60

  Beisel, Uli ^a   Boëte, Christophe ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

Author keywords

ecology; Genetically modified mosquitoes; malaria; public health; transposition; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872780311     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.776364     Document Type: Article

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