Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006

Research

Periurban Trypanosoma cruzi–infected Triatoma infestans, Arequipa, Peru

Michael Zachary Levy*†‡ , Natalie M. Bowman‡, Vivian Kawai‡, Lance A. Waller†, Juan Geny Cornejo del Carpio§, Eleazar Cordova Benzaquen¶, Robert H. Gilman‡#, and Caryn Bern*

Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Asociación Benéfica Proyectos en Informática, Salud, Medicina y Agricultura, Lima, Peru; §Dirección Regional del Ministerio de Salud, Arequipa, Peru; ¶Universidad Nacional San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru; #Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Figure 2. Map of households with Triatoma infestans and Trypanosmona cruzi–infected T. infestans in Guadalupe, a periurban community of Arequipa, Peru. Concentric circles are drawn around a house near the center of Guadalupe and represent parameters of T. infestans dispersal observed in rural areas (24,25). The nearest houses of neighboring communities are included for reference.

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