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Blood-Meal Sources and Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Coastal and Insular Triatomine Bugs from the Atacama Desert of Chile
(2022-04-08)
Mepraia parapatrica is one of the lesser known and less abundant sylvatic triatomine
species naturally infected by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease.
M. parapatrica lives in sympatry ...
Lizards as Silent Hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi
(2022-06)
We assessed 4 lizard species in Chile for Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, and 1 species for its ability to transmit the protozoan to uninfected kissing bugs. All lizard species were infected, and ...