Volume 9, Number 1, January 2003

Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle in Southern Texas, USA

Charles B. Beard,* Greg Pye,† Frank J. Steurer,* Ray Rodriguez,‡ Richard Campman,† A. Townsend Peterson,§ Janine Ramsey,¶ Robert A. Wirtz,* and Laura E. Robinson†
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Texas Department of Health, Harlingen, Texas, USA; ‡Cameron County Health Department, San Benito, Texas, USA; §Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; ¶Centro de Investigaciones sobre Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Figure 5. Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set Prediction-generated ecologic niche model, predicting distribution of Triatoma gerstaeckeri. Small circles show actual collection sites. Area in dark red is where high certainty exists for the specific niche of the species. The area in light red is the zone of moderate certainty, and the area in gray is for low certainty.

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