title: Vector blood meals and Chagas disease transmission potential, United States.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA. lori.stevens@uvm.edu
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Dorn
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hobson
authors.forename: Nicholas M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: de la Rua
authors.forename: David E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Lucero
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Klotz
authors.forename: Justin O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Klotz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001130:Arizona; D002140:California; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission*; D045303:Cytochromes b / Q000235:genetics; D004285:Dogs; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007299:Insect Bites and Stings / Q000469:parasitology*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013552:Swine; D014224:Triatoma / Q000469:parasitology*; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D045303:Cytochromes b