Notes on certain aspects of the action of DDT residual sprays, and on the partial treatment of dwellings as a means of anti-anopheline protection

1 November 1948

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Vol. 42 (3) , 295-297
https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(48)90012-1

Abstract

Palm-leaf traps have been used by the Bilharzia Destruction Section of the Egyptian Ministry of Public Health for some time in surveying streams for Bulinus truncatus. The method is superior to survey by dip-net in streams with a scanty snail population.