New approaches in American Trypanosomiasis research : proceedings of an international symposium, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 18-21 March 1975.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Symposium on New Approaches in American Trypanosomiasis Research Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, 1976.
Series:Publicaciones científicas (Washington, D.C.) ; no. 318.
Subjects:
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