Eight natural Bolivian populations of two closely related species of Triatominae,
Triatomasordida and T. guasayana, were analysed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis at …

Triatoma guasayana and two putative cryptic species pertaining to T. sordida complex
(named groups 1 and 2) occur in sympatry in the Bolivian Chaco. Using multilocus enzyme …

Chagas disease, whose etiological agent is the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, affects
millions of people worldwide and it is mainly transmitted by infected triatomine feces …

Triatoma petrochii Pinto and Barreto is a Brazilian triatomine (Hemiptera; Reduviidae) that is
morphologically similar to Tri. brasiliensis Neiva (Fig. 1). Both occur in the arid north-eastern …

Abstract Background The Sordida subcomplex (Triatominae) comprises four species,
Triatoma garciabesi, T. guasayana, T. patagonica and T. sordida, which differ in …

Triatoma dimidiata, a Chagas disease vector distributed in Mexico, Central America,
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador, has been studied using genetic markers and four …

Abstract Background Chagas disease vectors (Hemiptera-Reduviidae) comprise more than
140 blood-sucking insect species of the Triatominae subfamily. The largest genus is …

Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used to study the genetic
structure of sylvatic, peridomestic and domestic populations of Triatoma dimidiata. The …

Triatoma dimidiata Latreille is the second most important vector of Chagas' disease in
Colombia and is found in urban and periurban areas. From January 2007 to June 2008, we …

The population genetics of Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811) from five different provinces
in Guatemala, including three sylvan and three domestic populations, was investigated by …