Rational spatio-temporal strategies for controlling a Chagas disease vector in urban environments

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 1061-1070

  Levy, Michael Z ^a,b,c   Malaga Chavez, Fernando S ^d   Cornejo Del Carpio, Juan G ^d   Vilhena, Daril A ^a   McKenzie, F Ellis ^c   Plotkin, Joshua B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Dirección Regional del Ministerio de Salud   (Peru)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Control theory; Disease ecology; Triatoma infestans; Urban; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DESIGN; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; SYSTEM THEORY; URBAN PLANNING; VECTORS;

CHAGAS DISEASE; CHAOTIC FLUCTUATIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONTROL EFFORT; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISEASE AGENTS; DISEASE ECOLOGY; INFESTANS; RATIONAL DESIGN; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; TRAVEL; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; URBAN AREA; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 77954473781     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0479     Document Type: Article

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