Host Life History Strategy, Species Diversity, and Habitat Influence Trypanosoma cruzi Vector Infection in Changing Landscapes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gottdenker, Nicole L ^a   Chaves, Luis Fernando ^b,c   Calzada, José E ^d   Saldaña, Azael ^d   Carroll, C Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^d Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 12S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; LANDSCAPE; LIFE HISTORY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RHODNIUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; XENARTHRA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PANAMA; RHODNIUS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84870729377     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001884     Document Type: Article

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