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Impact of insecticide-treated bed nets on malaria transmission indices on the south coast of Kenya

BACKGROUND: Besides significantly reducing malaria vector densities, prolonged usage of bed nets has been linked to decline of Anopheles gambiae s.s. relative to Anopheles arabiensis, changes in host feeding preference of malaria vectors, and behavioural shifts to exophagy (outdoor biting) for the t...

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Autores principales: Mutuku, Francis M, King, Charles H, Mungai, Peter, Mbogo, Charles, Mwangangi, Joseph, Muchiri, Eric M, Walker, Edward D, Kitron, Uriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22165904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-356