Spatial heterogeneity and risk maps of community infestation by Triatoma infestans in rural northwestern Argentina.

• Main Authors: Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec (Author), Cynthia Spillmann (Author), Mario Zaidenberg (Author), Ricardo E Gürtler (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Fifty years of residual insecticide spraying to control Triatoma infestans in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia shows that vertically coordinated interventions aiming at full coverage have limited effects and are unsustainable. We quantified the spatial distribution o...