INVESTIGADORES
GURTLER Ricardo Esteban
artículos
Título:
Sustainable vector control and management of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco, Argentina.
Autor/es:
GURTLER RE; KITRON U; CECERE MC; SEGURA EL; COHEN JE
Revista:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Editorial:
National Academy of Sciences
Referencias:
Lugar: Washington DC; Año: 2007 vol. 104 p. 16194 - 16199
ISSN:
0027-8424
Resumen:
Chagas disease remains a serious obstacle to health and economic development in Latin America, especially for the rural poor.Wereport the long-term effects of interventions in rural villages in northern Argentina during 1984?2006. Two community-wide campaigns of residual insecticide spraying immediately and strongly reduced domestic infestation and infection with Trypanosoma cruzi in Triatoma infestans bugs and dogs and more gradually reduced the seroprevalence of children
