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Garrido, Rubén; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Quiroga, Nicol; Botto Mahan, Carezza (Wiley, 2020)1. Blood-feeding bugs in the Triatominae are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Mepraia is a sylvatic genus endemic to Chile that transmits T. cruzi in the wild cycle. 2. ...
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Campos Soto, Ricardo; Panzera, Francisco; Pita, Sebastián; Lages, Carol; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Botto Mahan, Carezza (Elsevier, 2016)Hematophagous insects of the subfamily Triatominae include several species with a large variety of shapes, behavior and distribution. They have great epidemiological importance sincemost of themtransmit the flagellated ...
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Rives Blanchard, Ninette; Torres Pérez, Fernando; Ortiz, Silvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Campos Soto, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2017)Chagas disease is one of the main zoonosis mediated by vectors in America. The etiologic agent Trypanosoma cruzi infects different mammals and is transmitted principally by the subfamily Triatominae. Mepraia is a genus ...
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Campos Soto, Ricardo; Díaz Campusano, Gabriel; Quiroga, Nicol; Muñoz San Martín, Catalina; Rives Blanchard, Ninette; Torres Pérez, Fernando (Peerj Inc, 2020)Trypanosoma cruzi, the cause agent of Chagas disease, is transmitted mainly by blood-feeding insects of the subfamily Triatominae. The T. cruzi life cycle alternates between triatomines and mammalian hosts, excluding birds ...