Vector Research Addressing Country Control Needs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Touré, Yeya Tiemoko ^a   Ramirez, Bernadette ^b   Sommerfeld, Johannes ^b  

^a based at the World Health Organization ^*  (Mali)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DENGUE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA MODIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; INDOOR RESIDUAL SPRAYING; MALARIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 84922210294     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003376     Document Type: Article

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