pontederia parviflora/말라리아

The ecological and climatic variations in tropical areas of Africa make the transmission of malaria very heterogeneous. Several species of mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus transmit the disease. In Côte d'Ivoire, studies in the southern and northern forests have shown the involvement of Anopheles

Water bodies infested with aquatic vegetations may pose problems in mosquito control through bio-environmental methods. Paucity of information pertaining to association of mosquito breeding with aquatic vegetation was the basis for present investigation. The mosquito breeding sites infested with