Challenges and options for disease vector control: The outbreak of Zika virus in South America and increasing insecticide resistance among mosquitoes have rekindled efforts for controlling disease vectors

EMBO Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1370-1373

  Hunter, Philip ^a  

^a London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; VECTOR CONTROL; WOLBACHIA; ZIKA FEVER; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 84989853466     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201643233     Document Type: Note

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