Development of a Trypanosoma cruzi (TcI) isolate in the digestive tract of an unfamiliar vector, Triatoma brasiliensis (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-199

  Araújo, Catarina A C ^a   Waniek, Peter J ^a   Jansen, Ana M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood ingestion; Epimastigote; Metacyclogenesis; Triatoma brasiliensis; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypomastigote

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE VECTOR; FLAGELLATE; HEMOPARASITE; HEMOPHAGY;

ARTICLE; EPIMASTIGOTE; FEEDING; FLAGELLATE; GIEMSA STAIN; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VECTOR; RAIN FOREST; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT VECTORS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; RECTUM; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEMIPTERA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); REDUVIIDAE; TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 47549092732     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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