Trypanosoma cruzi-infected triatomines and rodents co-occur in a coastal island of northern Chile

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2020-10-14

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Campos-Soto, Ricardo, Diaz-Campusano, Gabriel, Quiroga, Nicol, Munoz-San Martín, Catalina, Rives-Blanchard, Ninette, Torres-Pérez, Fernando

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https://repositorio.udla.cl/handle/udla/924

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https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9967

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T. cruzi reservoir in islands, Island T. cruzi cycle, Island T. cruzi hosts, Mepraia, Insular small mammals, Hemiptera:Reduviidae, Trypanosoma cruzi, T. cruzi life cycle

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PeerJ, 8, e9967. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9967

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Trypanosoma cruzi , the cause agent of Chagas disease, is transmitted mainly by blood-feeding insects of the subfamily Triatominae. The T. cruzi life cycle alternates between triatomines and mammalian...

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