Complementary Paths to Chagas Disease Elimination: The Impact of Combining Vector Control With Etiological Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The World Health Organization's 2020 goals for Chagas disease are (1) interrupting vector-borne intradomiciliary transmission and (2) having all infected people under care in endemic countries. Insecticide spraying has proved efficacious for reaching the first goal, but active transmission remains in several regions. For the second, treatment has mostly been restricted to recently infected patients, who comprise only a small proportion of all infected individuals.

Methods

We extended our previous dynamic transmission model to simulate a domestic Chagas disease transmission cycle and examined the effects of both vector control and etiological treatment on achieving the operational criterion proposed by the Pan American Health Organization for intradomiciliary, vect

SUBMITTER: Cucunuba ZM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5982731 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature