| could the chagas disease elimination programme in venezuela be compromised by reinvasion of houses by sylvatic rhodnius prolixus bug populations? | the andean pact initiative (1997) committed andean countries to eliminate vectorial transmission of chagas disease by 2010 via widespread residual insecticide spraying. in venezuela, this aim could be compromised by reinvasion of houses by palm tree populations of the major vector rhodnius prolixus. to test this hypothesis, a multivariate logistic regression was undertaken of risk factors for triatomine infestation and colonization in 552 houses and 1068 peri-domestic outbuildings in barinas sta ... | 2006 | 17002733 |