Interplay between insecticide-treated bed-nets and mosquito demography: implications for malaria control
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.03.003