This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I grew up believing that my auntie had almost died because she ate an apple in South America. According to the family ...
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While traditionally associated with the bite of the triatomine bug, also known as the "kissing bug," the parasite finds multiple pathways into the human body. From vector-borne transmission ...
Monitor for infection. Kissing bug is a nickname. "Triatomine bugs, commonly known as kissing bugs, are the major vector of ...
We are asking the Houston public to help us collect and test any “kissing bugs”, “chinches” or triatomine vectors from our fair city. Chagas disease is not transmitted from person-to-person like a ...
The hemipteran triatomine bugs are vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease in the western hemisphere in South and Central America. American trypanosomiasis or Chagas ...