Domestic Animal Hosts Strongly Influence Human-Feeding Rates of the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma infestans in Argentina

BACKGROUND: 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 blo...

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Autores principales: Gürtler, Ricardo E., Cecere, María C., Vázquez-Prokopec, Gonzalo M., Ceballos, Leonardo A., Gurevitz, Juan M., Fernández, María del Pilar, Kitron, Uriel, Cohen, Joel E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24852606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002894

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4037315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24852606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002894

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