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Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Anopheline Larval Habitats during a Four-Year Period in a Highland Community of Africa

Submitted by Inga on December 18, 2009 - 16:45
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Stephen Munga, Laith Yakob, Emmanuel Mushinzimana, Guofa Zhou, Tom Ouna, Noboru Minakawa, Andrew Githeko, AND Guiyun Yan
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Am J Trop Med Hyg 2009;81 1079-1084
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Land-use changes in the study area are favorable to An. gambiae larval development, thereby risking a more widespread distribution of malaria vector habitats and potentially increasing malaria transmission in western Kenya highlands.

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