Advantages and limitations of commercially available electrocuting grids for studying mosquito behaviour

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Majambere, Silas ^a,c   Massue, Dennis J ^b   Mlacha, Yeromin ^a,c   Govella, Nicodem J ^a   Magesa, Steven M ^b,d   Killeen, Gerry F ^a,c  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Electrocuting grids; Human landing collections; Malaria; Mosquito

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BED NET; ELECTROCUTING GRID; ELECTROCUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN LANDING CATCH; INSECT BITE; MALARIA CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CULEX; CULICIDAE; ELECTRICITY; ENTOMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 84874589221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-53     Document Type: Article

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