Biting behaviour of anopheles funestus populations in Mutare and Mutasa districts, Manicaland province, Zimbabwe: Implications for the malaria control programme

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 118-126

  Sande, Shadreck ^a,b   Zimba, Moses ^a   Chinwada, Peter ^a   Masendu, Hieronymo Takundwa ^b   Makuwaza, Aramu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Anopheles funestus; Biting behaviour; Malaria; Resting behaviour; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANOPHELES FUNESTUS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BITE; BREEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION RATE; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOROZOITE; ZIMBABWE; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPOROZOITES; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84976549233     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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