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Vector Blood Meals and Chagas Disease Transmission Potential, United States
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Apr 2012
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Source: Emerg Infect Dis. 18(4):646-649.
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Alternative Title:Emerg Infect Dis
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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.
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