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Urbanization, land tenure security and vector-borne Chagas disease

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dc.contributor.author Levy, Michael Z.
dc.contributor.author Barbu, Corentin M.
dc.contributor.author Castillo Neyra, Ricardo
dc.contributor.author Quispe-Machaca, Victor R.
dc.contributor.author Ancca-Juarez, Jenny
dc.contributor.author Escalante-Mejia, Patricia
dc.contributor.author Borrini-Mayori, Katty
dc.contributor.author Niemierko, Malwina
dc.contributor.author Mabud, Tarub S.
dc.contributor.author Behrman, Jere R.
dc.contributor.author Naquira Velarde, Cesar Gabriel
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-10T18:12:15Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-10T18:12:15Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8070
dc.description.abstract Modern cities represent one of the fastest growing ecosystems on the planet. Urbanization occurs in stages; each stage characterized by a distinct habitat that may be more or less susceptible to the establishment of disease vector populations and the transmission of vector-borne pathogens. We performed longitudinal entomological and epidemiological surveys in households along a 1900 x 125 m transect of Arequipa, Peru, a major city of nearly one million inhabitants, in which the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of Chagas disease, by the insect vector Triatoma infestans, is an ongoing problem. The transect spans a cline of urban development from established communities to land invasions. We find that the vector is tracking the development of the city, and the parasite, in turn, is tracking the dispersal of the vector. New urbanizations are free of vector infestation for decades. T. cruzi transmission is very recent and concentrated in more established communities. The increase in land tenure security during the course of urbanization, if not accompanied by reasonable and enforceable zoning codes, initiates an influx of construction materials, people and animals that creates fertile conditions for epidemics of some vector-borne diseases. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Royal Society Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofseries Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Insect Vectors/parasitology en_US
dc.subject Socioeconomic Factors en_US
dc.subject Animals en_US
dc.subject Chagas disease en_US
dc.subject Chagas Disease/epidemiology/transmission en_US
dc.subject Disease Reservoirs en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject land tenure security en_US
dc.subject Longitudinal Studies en_US
dc.subject Peru/epidemiology en_US
dc.subject Pets en_US
dc.subject Triatoma infestans en_US
dc.subject Triatoma/parasitology en_US
dc.subject Trypanosoma cruzi en_US
dc.subject urbanization en_US
dc.subject Urbanization en_US
dc.title Urbanization, land tenure security and vector-borne Chagas disease en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1003
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.00
dc.relation.issn 1471-2954


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