Browsing by Author "Correa, Juana P."

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    • Blood-meal sources and trypanosoma cruzi infection in coastal and insular triatomine bugs from the Atacama ... 
      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 ...
    • Lizards as silent hosts of trypanosoma cruzi 
      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 ...
    • Spatial distribution of an infectious disease in a small mammal community 
      Correa, Juana P.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Fontúrbel, Francisco E.; Oda, Esteban; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Botto Mahan, Carezza (Springer, 2015)
      Chagas disease is a zoonosis caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by insect vectors to several mammals, but little is known about its spatial epidemiology. We assessed the spatial distribution of T. ...