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  • Barriers to dog rabies vaccination during an urban rabies outbreak: Qualitative findings from Arequipa, Peru 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Brown, Joanna; Borrini, Katty; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Levy, Michael Z.; Buttenheim, Alison; Hunter, Gabrielle C.; Becerra, Victor; Behrman, Jere; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Canine rabies was reintroduced to the city of Arequipa, Peru in March 2015. The Ministry of Health has conducted a series of mass dog vaccination campaigns to contain the outbreak, but canine rabies virus ...
  • Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) as vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi 
    Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Tustin, Aaron W.; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)
    Populations of the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, have recently undergone explosive growth. Bed bugs share many important traits with triatomine insects, but it remains unclear whether these similarities include the ...
  • A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru. 
    Buttenheim, Alison M.; Levy, Michael Z.; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; McGuire, Molly; Toledo Vizcarra, Amparo M.; Mollesaca Riveros, Lina M.; Meza, Julio; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Behrman, Jere; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea (BioMed Central, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: Individual behavior change is a critical ingredient in efforts to improve global health. Central to the focus on behavior has been a growing understanding of how the human brain makes decisions, from motivations ...
  • Bottlenecks in domestic animal populations can facilitate the emergence of Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease 
    Levy, Michael Z.; Tustin, Aaron; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Mabud, Tarub S.; Levy, Katelyn; Barbu, Corentin M.; Quispe-Machaca, Victor R.; Ancca-Juarez, Jenny; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Ostfeld, Richard S. (Royal Society Publishing, 2015)
    Faeces-mediated transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi (the aetiological agent of Chagas disease) by triatomine insects is extremely inefficient. Still, the parasite emerges frequently, and has infected millions of people and ...
  • Characterization of guinea pig antibody responses to salivary proteins of Triatoma infestans for the development of a triatomine exposure marker 
    Dornakova, Veronika; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Carrion-Navarro, Oscar; Levy, Michael Z.; Schaub, Gunter A.; Schwarz, Alexandra (Public Library of Science, 2014)
    BACKGROUND: Salivary proteins of Triatoma infestans elicit humoral immune responses in their vertebrate hosts. These immune responses indicate exposure to triatomines and thus can be a useful epidemiological tool to ...
  • Comparison of insecticidal paint and deltamethrin against Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) feeding and mortality in simulated natural conditions 
    Maloney, Kathleen M.; Ancca-Juarez, Jenny; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Niemierko, Malwina; Yukich, Joshua O.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Keating, Joseph A.; Levy, Michael Z. (Wiley, 2013)
    The vector of Chagas disease, Triatoma infestans, is largely controlled by the household application of pyrethroid insecticides. Because effective, large-scale insecticide application is costly and necessitates numerous ...
  • A country bug in the city: Urban infestation by the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans in Arequipa, Peru 
    Delgado, Stephen; Ernst, Kacey C.; Pumahuanca, María Luz Hancco; Yool, Stephen R.; Comrie, Andrew C.; Sterling, Charles R.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Background: Interruption of vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi remains an unrealized Objetive: in many Latin American countries. The task of vector control is complicated by the emergence of vector insects in ...
  • Disease Diagnosis from Immunoassays with Plate to Plate Variability: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach 
    Entine, Oliver A.; Small, Dylan S.; Jensen, Shane T.; Sanchez, Gerardo; Bastos, Milagros; Verastegui Pimentel, Manuela Renee; Levy, Michael Z. (Springer, 2014)
    The standard methods of diagnosing disease based on antibody microtiter plates are quite crude. Few methods create a rigorous underlying model for the antibody levels of populations consisting of a mixture of positive and ...
  • Dispersal patterns of Trypanosoma cruzi in Arequipa, Peru 
    Berry, Alexander S. F.; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Borrini-Mayorí, Katty; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Chipana-Ramos, Claudia; Vargas-Maquera, Melina; Ancca-Juarez, Jenny; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z.; Brisson, Dustin (Public Library of Science, 2020)
    Anthropogenic environmental alterations such as urbanization can threaten native populations as well as create novel environments that allow human pests and pathogens to thrive. As the number and size of urban environments ...
  • Do Incentives Crowd Out Motivation? A Feasibility Study of a Community Vector-Control Campaign in Peru. 
    Buttenheim, Alison M.; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Shinnick, Julianna E.; Sheen, Justin K.; Volpp, Kevin G.; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Behrman, Jere R.; Levy, Michael Z. (Taylor and Francis, 2023)
    Incentives are a useful tool in encouraging healthy behavior as part of public health initiatives. However, there remains concern about motivation crowd out-a decline in levels of motivation to undertake a behavior to ...
  • Efecto del sacrificio de perros vagabundos en el control de la rabia canina 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Levy, Michael Z.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016)
    En la ciudad de Arequipa, Perú, se han detectado perros con rabia desde marzo de 2015, señal de la reintroducción del virus de la rabia (VR) en esta zona previamente declarada libre de esta enfermedad. La alta densidad de ...
  • An effective internet-based system for surveillance and elimination of triatomine insects: AlertaChirimacha 
    Tamayo Quintero, Laura Daniela; Condori Pino, Carlos Edgar; Sanchez, Zoee; Gonçalves Salgado, Raquel; Málaga Chávez, Fernando S.; Castillo-Neyra, Ricardo; Levy, Michael Z.; Paz-Soldan, Valerie A. (PLoS, 2023)
    Vector-borne diseases remain a significant public health threat in many regions of the world. Traditional vector surveillance and control methods have relied on active and passive surveillance programs, which are often ...
  • The Effects of City Streets on an Urban Disease Vector 
    Barbu, Corentin M.; Hong, Andrew; Manne, Jennifer M.; Small, Dylan S.; Quintanilla Calderón, Javier E.; Sethuraman, Karthik; Quispe-Machaca, Victor; Ancca-Juárez, Jenny; Cornejo del Carpio, Juan G.; Málaga Chavez, Fernando S.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
    With increasing urbanization vector-borne diseases are quickly developing in cities, and urban control strategies are needed. If streets are shown to be barriers to disease vectors, city blocks could be used as a convenient ...
  • Heterogeneous infectiousness in guinea pigs experimentally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Borrini Mayori, Katty; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Ancca Suarez, Jenny; Xie, Sherrie; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (Elsevier, 2015)
    Guinea pigs are important reservoirs of Trypanosoma cruzi , the causative parasite of Chagas disease, and in the Southern Cone of South America, transmission is mediated mainly by the vector Triatoma infestans . Interestingly, ...
  • Hindgut microbiota in laboratory-reared and wild Triatoma infestans 
    Waltmann, Andreea; Willcox, Alexandra C.; Balasubramanian, Sujata; Borrini Mayori, Katty; Mendoza Guerrero, Sandra; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Roach, Jeffrey; Condori Pino, Carlos; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Bern, Caryn; Juliano, Jonathan J.; Levy, Michael Z.; Meshnick, Steven R.; Bowman, Natalie M. (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    Triatomine vectors transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease in humans. Transmission to humans typically occurs when contaminated triatomine feces come in contact with the bite site or mucosal ...
  • Host-seeking behavior and dispersal of Triatoma infestans, a vector of Chagas disease, under semi-field conditions 
    Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Barbu, Corentin M.; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Borrini, Katty; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (Public Library of Science, 2015)
    Chagas disease affects millions of people in Latin America. The control of this vector-borne disease focuses on halting transmission by reducing or eliminating insect vector populations. Most transmission of Trypanosoma ...
  • Immigration and establishment of Trypanosoma cruzi in Arequipa, Peru. 
    Berry, Alexander S. F.; Salazar Sánchez, Renzo Sadath; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; Chipana-Ramos, Claudia; Vargas-Maquera, Melina; Ancca-Juarez, Jenny; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z.; Brisson, Dustin (Public Library of Science, 2019)
    Changing environmental conditions, including those caused by human activities, reshape biological communities through both loss of native species and establishment of non-native species in the altered habitats. Dynamic ...
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rabies reemergence in Latin America: The case of Arequipa, Peru 
    Raynor, Brinkley; Díaz Espinoza, Elvis Wildran; Shinnick, Julianna; Zegarra, Edith; Monroy, Ynes; Mena, Claudia; De la Puente León, Virginia Micaela; Levy, Michael Z.; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo (Public Library of Science, 2021)
    In Latin America, there has been tremendous progress towards eliminating canine rabies. Major components of rabies elimination programs leading to these successes have been constant and regular surveillance for rabid dogs ...
  • Increasing participation in a vector control campaign: a cluster randomised controlled evaluation of behavioural economic interventions in Peru 
    Buttenheim, Alison M.; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Toledo Vizcarra, Amparo M.; Borrini-Mayori, Katty; McGuire, Molly; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Volpp, Kevin G.; Small, Dylan S.; Behrman, Jere R.; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)
    Objective: To assess the efficacy of strategies informed by behavioural economics for increasing participation in a vector control campaign, compared with current practice. Design: Pragmatic cluster randomised controlled ...
  • Integrating evidence, models and maps to enhance Chagas disease vector surveillance 
    Gutfraind, Alexander; Peterson, Jennifer K.; Billig Rose, Erica; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Sheen, Justin; Condori-Luna, Gian Franco; Tankasala, Narender; Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Condori-Pino, Carlos; Anand, Priyanka; Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel; Levy, Michael Z. (Public Library of Science, 2018)
    Background: Until recently, the Chagas disease vector, Triatoma infestans, was widespread in Arequipa, Perú, but as a result of a decades-long campaign in which over 70,000 houses were treated with insecticides, infestation ...

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