First report on invasion of yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, at Narita International Airport, Japan in August 2012

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 189-194

  Sukehiro, Nayu ^a   Kida, Nori ^a   Umezawa, Masahiro ^a   Murakami, Takayuki ^a   Arai, Naoko ^a   Jinnai, Tsunesada ^a   Inagaki, Shunichi ^a   Tsuchiya, Hidetoshi ^a   Maruyama, Hiroshi ^a   Tsuda, Yoshio ^b  

^a New Tokyo International Airport   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENITROTHION;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AEDES JAPONICUS; AEDES THEOBALD; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANOPHELES SINENSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; INSECT CONTROL; JAPAN; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVASION; TRIPTEROIDES BAMBUSA; URANOTAENIA NOVOBSCURA; VIRUS DETECTION; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES; AIRPORTS; ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; TOKYO;

EID: 84878124514     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.189     Document Type: Article

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