Guidelines to site selection for population surveillance and mosquito control trials: A case study from Mauritius

Acta Tropica

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Iyaloo, Diana P ^a   Elahee, Khouaildi B ^a   Bheecarry, Ambicadutt ^a   Lees, Rosemary Susan ^b,c  

^a Ministry of Health and Quality of Life   (Mauritius)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Polo d'Innovazione Genomica Genetica e Biologia SCaRL Edificio D 4 piano Polo Unico di Medicina 'Santa Maria della Misericordia'   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Mauritius; Population surveillance; Site selection; Sterile insect technique (SIT); Vector control

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; FIELDWORK; HEALTH CARE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SITE SELECTION; STERILE RELEASE METHOD;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ETHICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MAURITIUS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; VECTOR CONTROL;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; HEXAPODA;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; MAURITIUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SITE SELECTION; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE (SIT); VECTOR CONTROL;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; DENGUE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MAURITIUS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84896546034     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.11.011     Document Type: Article

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