New approaches in American Trypanosomiasis research : proceedings of an international symposium, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 18-21 March 1975.
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization,
1976.
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| Series: | Publicaciones cientÃficas (Washington, D.C.) ;
no. 318. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ecologic methods : marking, trapping, and sampling for vector studies in the field
- Feeding patterns of some triatomine vector species
- Distribution and importance of triatominae as vectors of T. cruzi
- Aspects of the genetics of the vector
- Life cycle of T. cruzi in the vector
- Mechanism of resistance against T. cruzi in animals vaccinated with L. pessoai
- Hemoculture compared with Xenodiagnosis for the detection of T.cruzi infection in man and animals
- Ecology of small mammals in relation to sylvan and domestic transmission cycles
- Possible role of wild mammals and triatomines in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi to man
- Effects of transmission to man of the presence of domestic animals in infested households