Chagas disease vector control and Taylor's law
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Chagas disease vector control and Taylor's law
BACKGROUND Large spatial and temporal fluctuations in the population density of living organisms have profound consequences for biodiversity conservation, food production, pest control and disease control, especially vector-borne disease control. Chagas disease vector control based on insecticide spraying could benefit from improved concepts and methods to deal with spatial variations in vector...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006092