Spatial heterogeneity and risk maps of community infestation by Triatoma infestans in rural northwestern Argentina.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec, Cynthia Spillmann, Mario Zaidenberg, Ricardo E Gürtler, Uriel Kitron
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Chaco; Moreno
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001788; https://doaj.org/article/d9951c55d3ab43ccadf15e01100213d2

Fifty years of residual insecticide spraying to control Triatoma infestans in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia shows that vertically coordinated interventions aiming at full coverage have limited effects and are unsustainable. We quantified the spatial distribution o...