Browsing by Author "Bacigalupo, Antonella"
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Hernández, Jaime; Núñez, Ignacia; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to mammal hosts by triatomine insect vectors. The goal of this study was to model the spatial distribution of triatomine species ...
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Bacigalupo, Antonella; Segura M., José A.; García C., Alejandro; Hidalgo C., Javier; Galuppo G., Stephania; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (2006)Background: Insects of the subfamily triatominae are the biological vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causal agent of Chagas disease. Aim: To search for wild colonies of triatomines in the Metropolitan Region of Chile. ...
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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. ...
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Torres Pérez, Fernando; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Cook, Joseph A.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; García Mora, Alejandro; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (Elsevier, 2011)Chagas disease is one of the most important vector-borne diseases in Latin America. The disease, caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is commonly transmitted to humans by Triatoma infestans in South ...