Generalist host species drive Trypanosoma cruzi vector infection in oil palm plantations in the Orinoco region, Colombia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Erazo, Diana ^a   Gottdenker, Nicole L ^b   González, Camila ^a   Guhl, Felipe ^a   Cuellar, Monica ^a   Kieran, Troy J ^b   Glenn, Travis C ^b   Umaña, Juan D ^a   Cordovez, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood meal analysis; Elaeis guineensis; Generalist host; Host community composition; Rhodnius prolixus; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

RNA 12S; PALM OIL;

ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; ATTALEA BUTYRACEA; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELAEIS GUINEENSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOST; INFECTION RATE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PLANTATION; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; RNA SEQUENCE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DIDELPHIS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST RANGE; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; RHODNIUS; TRANSMISSION; TREE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DIDELPHIS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT VECTORS; MICE; PALM OIL; RHODNIUS; SWINE; TREES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 85066601701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3519-3     Document Type: Article

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