Predicting Triatoma dimidiata abundance and infection rate: A risk map for natural transmission of Chagas disease in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 514-519

  Dumonteil, Eric ^a   Gourbière, Sébastien ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MEXICO; MODEL; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2442675334     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.514     Document Type: Article

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