Dynamics of Sylvatic Chagas Disease Vectors in Coastal Ecuador Is Driven by Changes in Land Cover.

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dc.careerCiencias Biológicases
dc.category.authorvisitoren_US
dc.contributor.authorGrijalva Cobo, Mario Javier
dc.contributor.correspondingGrijalva Cobo, Mario Javier
dc.countryEcuadores
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-04T21:35:46Z
dc.date.available2023-11-04T21:35:46Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.dedication.authorTPes
dc.description.abstractGlobally, more than 10 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. The emergence and perpetuation of Chagas disease in some endemic countries, such as Ecuador, depends largely on sylvatic populations of T. cruzi-infected vectors that frequently infest houses after insecticide treatment thereby hampering long-term control prospects in vast geographical areas. Our study describes, for the first time in an agricultural landscape, how the temporal dynamics of sylvatic vector, host, and pathogen populations interact spatially in a farming community of coastal Ecuador. In particular, we found that land cover changes due to both farming activities and vegetation phenology affect rodent host distribution and consequently the relative abundance of vectors involved in the transmission cycle of T. cruzi.en_US
dc.facultyCiencias Exactas y Naturaleses
dc.id.author1708757742
dc.id.type1
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pntd.0002960
dc.identifier.issn1935-2727
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/handle/123456789/5456
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002960
dc.indexed.databaseScimago Journal Rankes
dc.language.isoen
dc.list.authorsGrijalva, M.J., Terán, D., Dangles, O.
dc.magazine.pageRange1-11
dc.magazine.titlePlos Neglected Tropical Diseasesen_US
dc.magazine.volumeChapter8 (6)
dc.rightsClosedAccessen
dc.statepublisheden_US
dc.subjectTrypanosoma cruzies
dc.subjectEcuadores
dc.subjectHabitatses
dc.subjectSquirrelses
dc.subjectTrypanosoma cruzi
dc.subjectEcuador
dc.subjectHabitats
dc.subjectSquirrels
dc.titleDynamics of Sylvatic Chagas Disease Vectors in Coastal Ecuador Is Driven by Changes in Land Cover.en_US
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