Human <i>Trypanosoma cruzi</i> infection is driven by eco-social interactions in rural communities of the Argentine Chaco by Maria del Pilar Fernández (8129937)

“…<i>cruzi</i> prior to the implementation of an insecticide spraying campaign (2008) was 29.0% (N = 1,373 in 301 households), and was twice as large in Qom than creoles. Using generalized linear mixed models, human seropositive cases significantly increased with infected triatomine abundance, having a seropositive household co-inhabitant and household social vulnerability (a multidimensional index of poverty), and significantly decreased with increasing host availability in sleeping quarters (an index summarizing the number of domestic hosts for <i>T</i>. …”