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Potential sources of Triatoma infestans reinfesting peridomiciles identified by morphological characterization in Los Llanos, La Rioja, Argentina.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Feb 2013
Hernández María Laura, Dujardin Jean Pierre, Gorla David Eladio, Catalá Silvia Susana
Abstract excerpt
The presence of Triatoma infestans in habitats treated with insecticides constitutes a frequent problem in endemic areas. Basing our study on the hypothesis that descendants of a residual population should be more similar to the pre-treatment population than to any other, we compared the indications of two quantitative morphological approaches. This study seeks to find the origin of 247 T. infestans from three...
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