The contribution of the Entomology Laboratory of the School of Public Health to the knowledge of Brazilian endemies.

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  • A de C Gomes
چکیده

The Entomology Laboratory of the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo is now completing fifty years of uninterrupted activity dedicated to research along the lines developed in the field of the great endemic diseases that devastate Brazil. Having begun with taxonomic studies, attention was then soon drawn to those relating to the biology and ecology of vectors, especially to Culicidae, phlebotominae and Triatominae. Thus our knowledge of the epidemiological pattern related to infections spread by these insects has been greatly enriched.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Revista de saude publica

دوره 21 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1987