Ecological control of Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811): five years after a Costa Rican pilot project

 

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Autores: Zeledón, Rodrigo, Rojas, Julio C, Urbina, Andrea, Cordero, Marlen, Gamboa, Sue H, Lorosa, Elias S, Alfaro, Sergio
Formato: artículo
Fecha de Publicación:2008
Descripción:An ecological pilot project for the control of Triatoma dimidiata allowed a new evaluation four and five years after environmental modifications in the peridomestic areas of 20 households. It was verified that the two groups of houses, 10 case-houses and 10 control-houses, were free of insects after those periods of time. In the first group, the owners started a chicken coop in the backyard and a colony of bugs was found there without infesting the house. In the second group, the inhabitants of one house once again facilitated the conditions for the bugs to thrive in the same store room, reaffirming that man-made ecotopes facilitates colonization. This ecological control method was revealed to be reliable and sustainable and it is recommended to be applied to those situations where the vectors of Chagas disease can colonize houses and are frequent in wild ecotopes
País:Repositorio UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:null:11056/23257
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/23257
Palabra clave:COSTA RICA
TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI
ENFERMEDAD DE CHAGAS
CHAGAS DISEASE