Intensified Surveillance and Insecticide-based Control of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma infestans in the Argentinean Chaco

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gurevitz, Juan M ^a   Gaspe, María Sol ^a   Enriquez, Gustavo F ^a   Provecho, Yael M ^a   Kitron, Uriel ^b   Gürtler, Ricardo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPERMETHRIN; DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; MALATHION;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; INFESTATION; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VECTOR CONTROL;

EID: 84876875480     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002158     Document Type: Article

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