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Mosquito-Disseminated Insecticide for Citywide Vector Control and Its Potential to Block Arbovirus Epidemics: Entomological Observations and Modeling Results from Amazonian Brazil

BACKGROUND: Mosquito-borne viruses threaten public health worldwide. When the ratio of competent vectors to susceptible humans is low enough, the virus’s basic reproductive number (R(0)) falls below 1.0 (each case generating, on average, <1.0 additional case) and the infection fades out from the...

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Autores principales: Abad-Franch, Fernando, Zamora-Perea, Elvira, Luz, Sérgio L. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5240929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002213