Key Source Habitats and Potential Dispersal of Triatoma infestans Populations in Northwestern Argentina: Implications for Vector Control

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Gürtler, Ricardo E ^a   Cecere, María C ^a   Fernández, María del Pilar ^a   Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a,b   Ceballos, Leonardo A ^a   Gurevitz, Juan M ^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

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITAT; HOUSEHOLD; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKEN; ECOSYSTEM; GOAT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; SEASON; TRIATOMA;

INSECTICIDE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHICKENS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOATS; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; SWINE; TRIATOMA;

EID: 84920517949     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003238     Document Type: Article

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