Twenty-eight years of Aedes albopictus in Brazil: A rationale to maintain active entomological and epidemiological surveillance

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 87-89

  Pancetti, Filipe Gabriel Menezes ^a   Honório, Nildimar Alves ^b   Urbinatti, Paulo Roberto ^a   Lima Camara, Tamara Nunes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Brazil; Update

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHIKUNGUNYA; DENGUE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INSECT CONTROL; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; YELLOW FEVER; ZOOLOGY; AEDES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARBOVIRUS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUS INFECTIONS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84926336012     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0155-2014     Document Type: Article

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