Trial of a community-based intervention to decrease infestation of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in cement washbasins in El Progreso, Honduras.

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Published in Acta Trop on June 30, 1998

Authors

E A Fernández1, E Leontsini, C Sherman, A S Chan, C E Reyes, R C Lozano, B A Fuentes, M Nichter, P J Winch

Author Affiliations

1: Departamento de Enfermedades de Transmisión Vectorial, Ministerio de Salud Pública, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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