The eco-epidemiology of Triatoma infestans in the temperate Monte Desert ecoregion of mid-western Argentina

BACKGROUND The eco-epidemiological status of Chagas disease in the Monte Desert ecoregion of western Argentina is largely unknown. We investigated the environmental and socio-demographic determinants of house infestation with Triatoma infestans, bug abundance, vector infection with Trypanosoma cruz...

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Main Authors: Ana Laura Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Yael Mariana Provecho, María del Pilar Fernández, Marta Victoria Cardinal, Patricia Lencina, Cynthia Spillmann, Ricardo Esteban Gürtler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762017001000698&lng=en&tlng=en