"Kissing bugs": Potential disease vectors and cause of anaphylaxis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1629-1634

  Klotz, John H ^a   Dorn, Patricia L ^b   Logan, Joy L ^c   Stevens, Lori ^d   Pinnas, Jacob L ^c   Schmidt, Justin O ^e   Klotz, Stephen A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Southwest Biomedical Research Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NIFURTIMOX; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PREDNISONE; SALIVA PROTEIN; TACROLIMUS;

ANAPHYLAXIS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EYE SWELLING; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA GERSTECKERI; TRIATOMA PROTRACTA; TRIATOMA RECURVA; TRIATOMA RUBIDA; TRIATOMA SANGUISUGA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMALS; CHAGAS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT VECTORS; MIDDLE AGED; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77953014664     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652769     Document Type: Review

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