Long-term reduction of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in sylvatic mammals following deforestation and sustained vector surveillance in northwestern Argentina

Acta Tropica

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 286-296

  Ceballos, L A ^a   Cardinal, M V ^a   Vazquez Prokopec, G M ^a   Lauricella, M A ^b   Orozco, M M ^a   Cortinas, R ^d   Schijman, A G ^c   Levin, M J ^c   Kitron, U ^d   Gurtler R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico e Investigacion de la Enfermedad de Chagas Dr Mario Fatala Chaben   (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conepatus; Deforestation; Didelphis; Force of infection; Land use change; Opossums; Reservoirs; Skunks; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

DEFORESTATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INSECTICIDE; MAMMAL; SEMIARID REGION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; FEMALE; FOX; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MAMMALS; TREES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ARGENTINA; CHACO [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

CANIDAE; CONEPATUS CHINGA; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS ALBIVENTRIS; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33745970761     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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