Trypanosoma cruzi infection, discrete typing units and feeding sources among Psammolestes arthuri (Reduviidae: Triatominae) collected in eastern Colombia

Background: Chagas disease (CD) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and is transmitted by hematophagous insects of the family Reduviidae. Psammolestes arthuri is a sylvatic triatomine distributed in Colombia and Venezuela which feeds on birds and there are a few studies that have...

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Autores Principales: Velásquez-Ortiz, Natalia, Galindo-Hernández, Carolina, Herrera, Giovanny, Cruz-Saavedra, Lissa, Higuera, Adriana, Arias-Giraldo, Luisa M., Urbano, Plutarco, Cuervo, Andrés, Teherán, Aníbal, Ramírez, Juan David
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: BioMed Central Ltd. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22753
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3422-y