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    • Quiroga, Nicol; Correa, Juana P.; Campos Soto, Ricardo; San Juan, Esteban; Araya Donoso, Raúl; Díaz Campusano, Gabriel; González, Christian R.; Botto Mahan, Carezza Veronica (MDPI, 2022)
      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 ...
    • Egaña, Camila; Pinto, Raquel; Vergara, Fernanda; Ortiz, Sylvia; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2016)
      © 2016 Elsevier B.V. The authors regret to inform that the affiliations of all the author were linked incorrectly. The corrected author-affiliation link is now updated and indicated above. The authors would like to apologise ...
    • Campos Soto, Ricardo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Córdova, Iván; Bruneau, Nicole; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Solari Illescas, Aldo (MARY ANN LIEBERT, 2016)
      Chagas disease, which ranks among the world's most neglected diseases, is a chronic, systemic, parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Mepraia species are the wild vectors of this parasite in Chile. ...
    • Botto Mahan, Carezza Veronica; Correa, Juana P.; Araya Donoso, Raúl; Farías Pizarro, Francisca Javiera; San Juan C., Esteban; Quiroga, Nicol; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Reyes Olivares, Claudio; González Acuña, Daniel (Centers Disease Control & Prevention, 2022)
      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 ...
    • Campos Soto, Ricardo; Torres Pérez, Fernando; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Soc Brasil Genetica, 2015)
      Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is widely used to clarify phylogenetic relationships among and within species, and to determine population structure. Due to the linked nature of mtDNA genes it is expected that different genes ...