Published in PLoS Negl Trop Dis on November 01, 2012
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Modeling disease vector occurrence when detection is imperfect: infestation of Amazonian palm trees by triatomine bugs at three spatial scales. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.18
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