Chagas Disease in the Amazon Basin: Association of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) with Domestic Pigs

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 99-103

  Valente, Vera C ^a   Valente, Sebastiao A S ^a   Noireau, Francois ^b   Carrasco, Hernan J ^c   Miles, Michael A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura   (Bolivia)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amazon Basin; Chagas disease; Panstrongylus geniculatus; Triatomine bugs; Trypanosoma cruzi; Zymodemes

Indexed keywords

ARMADILLO; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; DIDELPHIDAE; HEMIPTERA; PANSTRONGYLUS GENICULATUS; REDUVIIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HUMAN; PANSTRONGYLUS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PANSTRONGYLUS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032013724     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/35.2.99     Document Type: Article

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