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Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch

Shelter Dogs as Sentinels for Trypanosoma cruzi Transmission across Texas

Trevor D. Tenney, Rachel Curtis-Robles, Karen F. Snowden, and Sarah A. HamerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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Locations of canine shelters within Texas, United States, 2013. Shelters (A–G) are distributed across 7 of the 10 Gould Ecoregions of Texas (9), Map obtained from Texas parks and Wildlife Department (http://www.tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_mp_e0100_1070ad_08.pdf).

Figure. Locations of canine shelters within Texas, United States, 2013Shelters (A–G) are distributed across 7 of the 10 Gould Ecoregions of Texas (9), Map obtained from Texas parks and Wildlife Department (http://www.tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_mp_e0100_1070ad_08.pdf).

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