Vector Blood Meals and Chagas Disease Transmission Potential, United States

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Stevens, Lori ; Dorn, Patricia L. ; Hobson, Julia ; de la Rua, Nicholas M. ; Lucero, David E. ; Klotz, John H. ; Schmidt, Justin O. ; Klotz, Stephen A.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Animals Chagas Disease Cytochromes B Dispatch Dogs Feeding Behavior Humans Insect Bites And Stings Insect Vectors Mice Rats Sequence Analysis, DNA Swine

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 18(4):646-649.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1R15 A1079672-01A1/PHS HHS/United States ; R15 AI079672/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; California
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:81a155ab02e1dd163756eaeac391eff215cce763dce4f076a6ccfc8ba65e268d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23874/cdc_23874_DS1.pdf
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