Avian malaria prevalence and mosquito abundance in the Western Cape, South Africa

Malaria Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Okanga, Sharon ^a   Cumming, Graeme S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Avian malaria; Mosquito; South Africa; Western Cape

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; RAIN;

AEDES; AEDES AEDIMORPHUS; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES COUSTANI; ANOPHELES SQUAMOUS; ARTICLE; AVIAN MALARIA; BIRD; CULEX; CULISETA ALLOTHEOBALDIA; DISEASE CARRIER; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMODIUM; PREVALENCE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SUMMER; TOXORHYNCITES TOXORHYNCITES; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEAVING; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; CULICIDAE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA, AVIAN; OXYGEN; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RAIN; SALINITY; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84886182109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-12-370     Document Type: Article

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