Could the Chagas disease elimination programme in Venezuela be compromised by reinvasion of houses by sylvatic Rhodnius prolixus bug populations?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1585-1593

  Sanchez Martin, Maria J ^a   Feliciangeli, M Dora ^b   Campbell Lendrum, Diarmid ^a   Davies, Clive R ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Palm trees; Re infestation; Rhodnius prolixus; Risk factor; Triatoma maculata; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE VECTOR; FLY; INSECTICIDE; RISK FACTOR; SPRAY; TREE;

ARTICLE; ATTALEA BUTYRACEA; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEN; INFESTATION; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RISK FACTOR; TREE; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; CHAGAS DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOUSING; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; ODDS RATIO; RHODNIUS; RISK FACTORS; TRIATOMA; VENEZUELA;

SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

ATTALEA BUTYRACEA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA MACULATA;

EID: 33749027208     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2006.01717.x     Document Type: Article

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