Sand fly surveillance and control on Camp Ramadi, Iraq, as part of a leishmaniasis control program

Journal of Vector Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 411-414

  Stoops, Craig A ^a   Heintshcel, Bryan ^b   El Hossary, Shabaan ^c   Kaldas, Rania M ^c   Obenauer, Peter J ^c   Farooq, Mohammad ^d   Villinski, Jeffrey T ^c  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b US Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6   (United States)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^d Navy Entomology Center of Excellence   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INSECT CONTROL; IRAQ; LEISHMANIASIS; PATHOGENICITY; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; IRAQ; LEISHMANIASIS; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 84887546256     PISSN: 10811710     EISSN: 19487134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1948-7134.2013.12059.x     Document Type: Article

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