| domiciliary biting frequency and blood ingestion of the chagas's disease vector rhodnius prolixus ståhl (hemiptera: reduviidae), in venezuela. | demolition of a rural house in the state of cojedes, venezuela, provided a collection of 7.934 rhodnius prolixus of which a random sample of 1,415 was weighed within 48 hours. the field weights, coupled with laboratory information of weight loss (in %) with time, average blood ingestion and meal size sufficient to promote moulting, were used to estimate biting rate under domiciliary conditions. the results show that in this particularly highly infested house, the r. prolixus population bites, on ... | 1979 | 112731 |
| density estimates of the domestic vector of chagas disease, rhodnius prolixus stål (hemiptera: reduviidae), in rural houses in venezuela. | we reported the use of the timed manual method, routinely employed as an indicator to the relative abundance of domestic triatomine bugs, to estimate their absolute density in houses. a team of six people collected rhodnius prolixus stål bugs from the walls and roofs of 14 typical palm-leaf rural houses located in cojedes, venezuela, spending 40 minutes searching in each house. one day after these manual collections, all the houses were demolished and the number of triatomine bugs were identifie ... | 1995 | 7614667 |