Measurement of landing mosquito density on humans

Acta Tropica

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-67

  Barnard, Donald R ^a   Dickerson, Catherine Z ^a   Murugan, Kadarkarai ^b   Xue, Rui De ^c   Kline, Daniel L ^a   Bernier, Ulrich R ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Anastasia Mosquito Control District   (United States)

Author keywords

Density; Detection; Mosquito; Periodicity; Surveillance; Vector

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DETECTION METHOD; DEW POINT; DISEASE VECTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; MOSQUITO; PERIODICITY; REAL TIME; TRAPPING;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX NIGRIPALPUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; MOSQUITO LANDING DENSITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERIODICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERIODICITY;

EID: 84899837139     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.04.019     Document Type: Article

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