Impact of community-based vector control on house infestation and Trypanosoma cruzi infection in Triatoma infestans, dogs and cats in the Argentine Chaco

Acta Tropica

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-211

  Cardinal, M V ^a   Lauricella, M A ^b   Marcet, P L ^a   Orozco, M M ^a   Kitron, U ^c   Gurtler R E ^a,c  

^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

Cats; Chagas disease; Dogs; Risk factors; Sentinel; Surveillance; Triatoma infestans; Trypanosoma cruzi; Vector control

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CANID; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INSECT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PROTOZOAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CAT; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFESTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CHAGAS DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PREVALENCE; TRIATOMA;

ARGENTINA; GRAN CHACO; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34548118634     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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