Innovative community-based vector control interventions for improved dengue and Chagas disease prevention in Latin America: Introduction to the special issue

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 85-88

  Sommerfeld, Johannes ^a   Kroeger, Axel ^a,b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Cluster randomized controlled trial; Community participation; Dengue; Latin America; Vector control

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

CAPACITY BUILDING; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY BASED VECTOR CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TROPICAL DISEASE; URBAN POPULATION; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INSECT CONTROL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DENGUE; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LATIN AMERICA; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84928671156     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru176     Document Type: Editorial

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