Active dispersal by wild Triatoma infestans in the Bolivian Andes

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 759-764

  Richer, Wilfrid ^a   Kengne, Pierre ^a   Cortez, Mirko Rojas ^b   Perrineau, Marie Mathilde ^a   Cohuet, Anna ^a   Fontenille, Didier ^a   Noireau, François ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

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

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Chagas disease; Dispersal; Microsatellite; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; DISPERSAL; GENE FLOW; INSECT; INSECTICIDE; LAND COVER; RECOLONIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; WILD SPECIES;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION GROWTH; RURAL HEALTH; TREES; TRIATOMA;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 34249879000     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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