Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the sylvatic kissing bug Mepraia gajardoi from the Chilean Southern Pacific Ocean coast.
The Southern Pacific Ocean coast has been traditionally considered a non-active transmission area for Chagas disease. In this report, we show evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the sylvatic kissing bug Mepraia gajardoi from the northern Chilean coast.
Botto-Mahan
Carezza
C
Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile. cbotto@uchile.cl
Sepúlveda
Maritza
M
Vidal
Marcela
M
Acuña-Retamar
Mariana
M
Ortiz
Sylvia
S
Solari
Aldo
A
D000818:Animals; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000635:transmission*; D002677:Chile; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000032:analysis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020064:Reduviidae / Q000469:parasitology*; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D016054:DNA, Protozoan