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CAN WILD TRIATOMA INFESTANS FOCI IN BOLIVIA JEOPARDIZE CHAGAS DISEASE CONTROL EFFORTS?
Noireau, François et al. | Date Issued: 2005
Author
Noireau, François
Cortez, Mirko G. Rojas
Monteiro, Fernando A.
Jansen, Ana Maria
Torrico, Faustino
Affilliation
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Institut de Recherche pour le Développment. Unité de Recherche 016 Caractérisation et Contrôle des Populations de Vecteurs. Montepellier, France.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidad Mayor de San Simon. Facultad de Medicina. Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical. Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Medicina Tropical. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Protozoologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidad Mayor de San Simon. Facultad de Medicina. Centro Universitario de Medicina Tropical. Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Abstract
The expected success of Chagas disease control programs in the Southern Cone countries relied on the assumption that Triatoma infestans, the main domestic vector, did not maintain silvatic foci except in the Cochabamba valley in Bolivia. Recent fieldwork revealed that wild populations of this vector are much more widespread throughout Bolivia than previously thought. Therefore, it is important to find out whether these silvatic populations could jeopardize control efforts in Bolivia, and to investigate their possible occurrence in neighboring regions of Paraguay and Argentina.
Keywords in Portuguese
Triatoma infestans
Doença de Chagas
Bolívia
Controle
 
Keywords
Triatoma infestans
Control efforts
Bolivia
Chagas Disease
 
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
NOIREAU, François et al. Can wild Triatoma infestans foci in Bolivia jeopardize Chagas Disease control efforts?. Trends in Parasitology, v. 21, n. 1, p. 7-10, Jan. 2005.
DOI
10.1016/j.pt.2004.10.007
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1471-4922