A prospective study of the effects of sustained vector surveillance following community-wide insecticide application on Trypanosoma cruzi infection of dogs and cats in rural northwestern Argentina

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 753-761

  Cardinal, Marta V ^a   Castañera, Mónica B ^a   Lauricella, Marta A ^b   Cecere, María C ^a   Ceballos, Leonardo A ^a   Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a   Kitron, Uriel ^c   Gürtler, Ricardo 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 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CAT; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; XENODIAGNOSIS; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HOUSING; CAT DISEASE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOUSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRIATOMA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HOUSING; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33750615771     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.753     Document Type: Article

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