Public street lights increase house infestation by the chagas disease vector triatoma dimidiata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pacheco Tucuch, Freddy Santiago ^a   Ramirez Sierra, Maria Jesus ^a   Gourbière, Sébastien ^b,c   Dumonteil, Eric ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC LIGHT; FEMALE; HOUSING; ILLUMINATION; IMAGO; INFESTATION; LIGHT; LIGHT COLOR; MALE; MEXICO; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PUBLIC STREET LIGHT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA; WHITE LIGHT; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

HEXAPODA; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HOUSING; INSECT VECTORS; LIGHT; MALE; TRIATOMA;

EID: 84860476304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036207     Document Type: Article

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