Factors affecting infestation by Triatoma infestans in a rural area of the humid Chaco in Argentina: a multi-model inference approach.

• Main Authors: Juan M Gurevitz (Author), Leonardo A Ceballos (Author), María Sol Gaspe (Author), Julián A Alvarado-Otegui (Author), Gustavo F Enríquez (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author), Ricardo E Gürtler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi by Triatoma infestans remains a major public health problem in the Gran Chaco ecoregion, where understanding of the determinants of house infestation is limited. We conducted a cross-sectional study to model factors affecting bug prese...