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

• 主要な著者: Ricardo E Gürtler (著者), María C Cecere (著者), Gonzalo M Vázquez-Prokopec (著者), Leonardo A Ceballos (著者), Juan M Gurevitz (著者), María Del Pilar Fernández (著者), Uriel Kitron (著者), Joel E Cohen (著者)
• フォーマット: 図書
• 出版事項: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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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...