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V S P Batista1, F A Fernandes, P Cordeiro-Estrela

  • 1Laboratório de Eco-Epidemiologia da Doença de Chagas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

Medical and Veterinary Entomology
|September 19, 2012
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CearáChagas' diseaseTriatominaegeometric morphometricsre-infestation

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