Cost of microbial larviciding for malaria control in rural Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1468-1475

  Rahman, Rifat ^a   Lesser, Adriane ^a   Mboera, Leonard ^b   Kramer, Randall ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; malaria; microbial larviciding; Tanzania; vector control

Indexed keywords

LARVICIDAL AGENT; INSECTICIDE;

COST ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA;

ARTICLE; BED NET; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MOSQUITO; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL WELFARE; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION;

KENYA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA;

EID: 84992428527     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12767     Document Type: Article

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