TriatoScore: an entomological-risk score for Chagas disease vector control-surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Triatomine bugs transmit Chagas disease across Latin America, where vector control-surveillance is increasingly decentralized. Locally run systems often deal with highly diverse native-vector faunas-plus, in some areas, domestic populations of non-native species. Flexible entomological-risk indicators that cover native and non-native vectors and can support local decision-making are therefore needed.

Methods

We present a local-scale entomological-risk score ("TriatoScore") that leverages and builds upon information on the ecology-behavior and distribution-biogeography of individual triatomine bug species. We illustrate our approach by calculating TriatoScores for the 417 municipalities of Bahia state, Brazil. For this, we (i) listed all triatomine bug species reco

SUBMITTER: Ribeiro-Jr G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8465766 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature