Sand fly surveillance and control on Camp Ramadi, Iraq, as part of a leishmaniasis control program.
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1Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center detachment USDA ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32068, [email protected] 2U.S. Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6, Pearl Harbor, HI 3U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo, Egypt PSC 452, Box 154, FPO AE 09835-9998 4U.S. Navy Entomology Center of Excellence, Bldg 931, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 32212
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of vector ecology : journal of the Society for Vector Ecology
دوره 38 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013