Characterization of the Anopheles funestus group, including Anopheles funestus-like, from Northern Malawi

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 753-762

  Vezenegho, Samuel B ^a,b   Chiphwanya, John ^c   Hunt, Richard H ^a,b   Coetzee, Maureen ^a,b   Bass, Chris ^d   Koekemoer, Lizette L ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c National Malaria Control Programme   (Malawi)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African malaria vector; Identification; Insecticide resistance

Indexed keywords

BENDIOCARB; CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; DELTAMETHRIN; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DNA; INSECTICIDE; NITRILE; PYRETHROID;

ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES RIVULORUM; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD; COW; DNA TEMPLATE; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GOAT; HYDROLYSIS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALARIA; MALAWI; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; DNA; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; INSECTICIDES; MALARIA; MALAWI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRILES; PHENYLCARBAMATES; PLASMODIUM; PYRETHRINS;

EID: 84887870154     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trt089     Document Type: Article

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