Seasonal variation in the home range and host availability of the blood-sucking insect Mepraia Spinolai in wild environment

Acta Tropica

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-163

  Botto Mahan, Carezza ^a   Cattan, Pedro E ^a   Canals, Mauricio ^a   Acuña, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Parasite; Protozoa; Reduviidae; Triatominae; Vector

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; HOME RANGE; PEST SPECIES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CHILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOME RANGE; INSECT; MAMMAL; MEPRAIA SPINOLAI; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WILDLIFE; WINTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILE; LIFE STYLE; SEASONS; TRIATOMINAE;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MEPRAIA SPINOLAI; PROTOZOA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 21744432347     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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