Aedes mosquito larvae collected from Ishigaki-jima and Taketomi-jima Islands in southern Japan

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1375-1379

  Tsunoda, Takashi ^a   Fukuchi, Atsuko ^a   Nanbara, Sho ^a   Higa, Yukiko ^a   Takagi, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Distance; Japan; Microhabitat; Ocean

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873026953     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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