Push by a net, pull by a cow: Can zooprophylaxis enhance the impact of insecticide treated bed nets on malaria control?

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Iwashita, Hanako ^a   Dida, Gabriel O ^a   Sonye, George O ^b   Sunahara, Toshihiko ^a   Futami, Kyoko ^a   Njenga, Sammy M ^c   Chaves, Luis F ^a,d   Minakawa, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASK Community Project   (Kenya)

^c Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Bed net; Bloodfeeding; Plasmodium falciparum; Zooprophylaxis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; KENYA; LARVA; LIVESTOCK; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84893848107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-52     Document Type: Article

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