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Sexual Transmission of American Trypanosomes from Males and Females to Naive Mates
Published on: January 27, 2019
Vector blood meals and Chagas disease transmission potential, United States
Lori Stevens1, Patricia L Dorn, Julia Hobson
1University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA. lori.stevens@uvm.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|April 4, 2012
Abstract:
A high proportion of triatomine insects, vectors for Trypanosoma cruzi trypanosomes, collected in Arizona and California and examined using a novel assay had fed on humans. Other triatomine insects were positive for T. cruzi parasite infection, which indicates that the potential exists for vector transmission of Chagas disease in the United States.
