Parasites and vectors of malaria on Rusinga Island, Western Kenya

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Olanga, Evelyn A ^a,b   Okombo, Lawrence ^a   Irungu, Lucy W ^b   Mukabana, Wolfgang R ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Capture fishing; Culex; Indoor transmission; Kenya; Malaria; Malaria prevalence; Mansonia; Outdoor transmission; P. malariae; P. ovale; Plasmodium falciparum; Rusinga Island

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULEX; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MANSONIA; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; INSECT VECTOR; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDE-TREATED BEDNETS; ISLANDS; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928786445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0860-z     Document Type: Article

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