Domestic animal hosts strongly influence human-feeding rates of the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans in Argentina.

• Main Authors: Ricardo E Gürtler (Author), María C Cecere (Author), Gonzalo M Vázquez-Prokopec (Author), Leonardo A Ceballos (Author), Juan M Gurevitz (Author), María Del Pilar Fernández (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author), Joel E Cohen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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The host species composition in a household and their relative availability affect the host-feeding choices of blood-sucking insects and parasite transmission risks. We investigated four hypotheses regarding factors that affect blood-feeding rates, proportion of human-fed bugs (human blood index), a...