Insecticidal bed nets and filariasis transmission in Papua New Guinea

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 745-753

  Reimer, Lisa J ^a,c,d   Thomsen, Edward K ^a,c,d   Tisch, Daniel J ^c   Henry Halldin, Cara N ^c   Zimmerman, Peter A ^c   Baea, Manasseh E ^a   Dagoro, Henry ^a   Susapu, Melinda ^b,d   Hetzel, Manuel W ^a,e   Bockarie, Moses J ^d   Michael, Edwin ^f   Siba, Peter M ^a   Kazura, James W ^c  

^a PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^b DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Papua New Guinea)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES FARAUTI; ANOPHELES HINESORUM; ANOPHELES KOLIENSES; ANOPHELES PUNCTULATUS; ARTICLE; BED NET; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VECTOR CONTROL; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84882803325     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1207594     Document Type: Article

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