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Chagas disease in Andean countries
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2007 The Andean Countries' Initiative (ACI) for controlling Chagas disease was officially created in 1997 within the framework of the Hipolito Unanue Agreement (UNANUE) between the Ministries of Health of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Felipe Guhl
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An inside look at the sensory biology of triatomines.
Journal of insect physiology, 2017 Although kissing bugs (Triatominae: Reduviidae) are perhaps best known as vectors of Chagas disease, they are important experimental models in studies of insect sensory physiology, pioneered by the seminal studies of Wigglesworth and Gillet more than ...
R. Barrozo +4 more
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Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence
Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract Major infectious diseases threatening human health are transmitted to people from animals or by arthropod vectors such as insects. In recent decades, disease outbreaks have become more common, especially in tropical regions, including new and emerging infections that were previously undetected or unknown. Even though there is growing awareness
M. Cristina Rulli +6 more
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Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2017 INTRODUCTION Notice of triatomines in dwellings of some neighborhoods in Bucaramanga motivated the realization of this study.Objetive: To evaluate the intrusion of triatomines and mammals, as well as some risk factors in urban dwellings.
Marlene Reyes +4 more
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Vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi among captive Neotropical primates in a Brazilian zoo [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Neotropical primates are important sylvatic hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Infection is often subclinical, but severe disease has been described in both free-ranging and captive primates.
Cuba, César Augusto Cuba +7 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina TropicalINTRODUCTION: Studying the feeding preferences of triatomines is an important entomological surveillance tool, since continuous surveillance of the disease is necessary.
Maria Beatriz Araújo Silva +6 more
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A Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Microbiota in the Digestive Tract of Triatomines
Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2017 The digestive tract of triatomines (DTT) is an ecological niche favored by microbiota whose enzymatic profile is adapted to the specific substrate availability in this medium.
N. Carels +4 more
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High levels of human infection with Trypanosoma cruzi associated with the domestic density of infected vectors and hosts in a rural area of northeastern Argentina [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Insecticide spraying campaigns designed to suppress the principal vectors of the Chagas disease usually lack an active surveillance system that copes with house reinvasion.
Cardinal, Marta Victoria +5 more
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Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomines from Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Salud Pública de México, 2007 To determine the prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomines from Nuevo León using the standardization of an improved enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test.From July to September 2005, 52 triatomines were captured in General Terán, a municipality located in Nuevo León. They were analyzed using optical microscopy (OM) and a polymerase chain reaction
Zinnia Judith, Molina-Garza +3 more
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Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in an Indigenous Kariña Community in Eastern Venezuela [PDF]
, 2012 We investigated the seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in an indigenous Kariña population in eastern Venezuela. A total of 175 serum samples were collected in the community of Piñantal during February 2009.
Alicia Jorquera +9 more
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