Chagas disease control in Venezuela: Lessons for the Andean region and beyond

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-49

  Feliciangeli, Maria Dora ^a   Campbell Lendrum, Diarmid ^b   Martinez, Cinda ^c   Gonzalez, Darío ^c   Coleman, Paul ^b   Davies, Clive ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

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

^c Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Salud   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; VENEZUELA; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; INSECT CONTROL; RISK; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VENEZUELA;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0037213356     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(02)00013-2     Document Type: Review

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