Chagas disease: Assessing the existence of a threshold for bug infestation rate

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 972-979

  Aiga, Hirotsugu ^a,b   Sasagawa, Emi ^a   Hashimoto, Ken ^a   Nakamura, Jiro ^a   Zúniga, Concepción ^c   Chévez, José Eduardo Romero ^d   Hernández, Hector Manuel Ramos ^d   Nakagawa, Jun ^e   Tabaru, Yuichiro ^f  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health   (Honduras)

^d Ministry of Health   (El Salvador)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f Fuji Environmental Service Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EL SALVADOR; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INSECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; EL SALVADOR; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTICIDES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84862219791     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0652     Document Type: Article

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