Sylvatic Triatoma infestans (Reduviidae, Triatominae) in the Andean valleys of Bolivia

Acta Tropica

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-54

  Cortez, Mirko Rojas ^a,b,c   Emperaire, Laure ^d   Piccinali, RominaV ^e   Gürtler, Ricardo E ^e   Torrico, Faustino ^b   Jansen, Ana Maria ^a   Noireau, François ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^c Programa Nacional de Control de Chagas PNCCH   (Bolivia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Andean valley; Bolivia; Sylvatic populations; Triatoma infestans; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

DISEASE VECTOR; INSECT; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; VALLEY; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; NONHUMAN; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; ECOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; NYMPH; SEASONS; TREES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34249733758     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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