Spatial Heterogeneity and Risk Maps of Community Infestation by Triatoma infestans in Rural Northwestern Argentina

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a,b,c   Spillmann, Cynthia ^d   Zaidenberg, Mario ^d   Gürtler, Ricardo E ^a   Kitron, Uriel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d National Ministry of Health   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PREVALENCE; RISK; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VECTOR CONTROL; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; DISEASE VECTORS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; RURAL POPULATION; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; TRIATOMA;

EID: 84865967875     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001788     Document Type: Article

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