Domestic Animal Hosts Strongly Influence Human-Feeding Rates of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma infestans in Argentina

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Gürtler, Ricardo E ^a   Cecere, María C ^a   Vázquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a,b   Ceballos, Leonardo A ^a   Gurevitz, Juan M ^a   Fernández, Maríal del Pilar ^a   Kitron, Uriel ^b   Cohen, Joel E ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FEEDING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKEN; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FAMILY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKENS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOGS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84901798316     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002894     Document Type: Article

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