Feeding rates, nutritional status and flight dispersal potential of peridomestic populations of Triatoma infestans in rural northwestern Argentina

Acta Tropica

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-159

  Ceballos, L A ^a   Vazquez Prokopec, G M ^a   Cecere, M C ^a   Marcet, P L ^a   Gurtler R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Feeding; Flight dispersal; Population dynamics; Triatoma infestans; Vector control

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DISEASE CARRIER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLYING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFESTATION; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; PARASITE CONTROL; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHICKENS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOATS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SWINE; TRIATOMA;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; SUS SCROFA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 21744437595     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.05.010     Document Type: Article

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