Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the sylvatic kissing bug Mepraia gajardoi from the Chilean Southern Pacific Ocean coast

Acta Tropica

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-169

  Botto Mahan, Carezza ^a   Sepúlveda, Maritza ^a   Vidal, Marcela ^a   Acuña Retamar, Mariana ^b   Ortiz, Sylvia ^c   Solari, Aldo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chagas disease; Insect vector; Reduviidae; Triatominae

Indexed keywords

CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; INSECT; SALIVA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSECT; MEPRAIA GAJORDOI; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUVIIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

CHILE; PACIFIC COAST [CHILE]; PACIFIC COAST [SOUTH AMERICA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; MEPRAIA; REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 38349111401     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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