Chagas disease in a domestic transmission cycle in Southern Texas, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-105

  Beard, Charles B ^a   Pye, Greg ^b   Steurer, Frank J ^a   Rodriguez, Ray ^c   Campman, Richard ^b   Townsend Peterson, A ^d   Ramsey, Janine ^e   Wirtz, Robert A ^a   Robinson, Laura E ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c Cameron County Health Department   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOMESTICATION; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA GERSTAECKERI;

EID: 0037237580     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0901.020217     Document Type: Article

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