Tire-breeding mosquitoes of public health importance along an urbanisation gradient in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Used vehicle tires are a source of mosquito vectors and a means of their introduction and expansion. With the aim of assessing the effects of urbanisation on the main mosquito vectors in temperate Argentina, the infestation levels of Aedes aegypti (L.) and Culex pipiens L. were studied in used tires...

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Main Authors: Alejandra Rubio, María Victoria Cardo, Darío Vezzani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2011-09-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762011000600006&lng=en&tlng=en