Control of Bancroftian filariasis by integrating therapy with vector control using polystyrene beads in wet pit latrines
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 84 (5), 709-714
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(90)90158-b
Abstract
In the town of Makunduchi, Zanzibar, wet pit latrines provided breeding places for Culex quinquefasciatus and there were few other mosquito breedingKeywords
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