Cost-effectiveness of chagas disease vector control strategies in Northwestern Argentina.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec, Cynthia Spillmann, Mario Zaidenberg, Uriel Kitron, Ricardo E Gürtler
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Moreno
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000363; https://doaj.org/article/2b18c8c3163a43e6b4520b42c23c13ac

Background Control and prevention of Chagas disease rely mostly on residual spraying of insecticides. In Argentina, vector control shifted from a vertical to a fully horizontal strategy based on community participation between 1992 and 2004. The effects of such strategy on Triatoma infestans, the ma...