High throughput sequencing (HTS) provides new research opportunities for work on non-
model organisms, such as differential expression studies between populations exposed to …

Chagas disease (ChD), caused by the hemoflagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is an
important morbidity that affects approximately six million people in the American continent. T …

Triatoma brasiliensis is the most important vector of Chagas disease in the Caatinga eco-
region of northeastern Brazil. Wild T. brasiliensis populations have been reported only from …

Publisher Summary This chapter relates factors of vector host parasite associations that
highlight the evolutionary course of Chagas disease, and how these interactions account for …

Chagas disease is caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and affects about
15 million people in the Americas. In the Brazilian Amazon Basin, the disease is enzootic …

The genetic variability of 24 Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from humans (11) and triatomines
(13) in northeastern Brazil was analyzed by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) …

The seroprevalence of Chagas disease in humans and the presence of triatomines were
investigated in a rural locality in the State of Ceará, Brazil, an historically endemic region …

Objetivos: Ressaltar a importância da distribuição geográfica e do comportamento dos
vetores dadoença de Chagas no estado de Pernambuco. Métodos: O material analisado …

The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean
region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to …

Em Minas Gerais, Brasil, após a eliminação do Triatoma infestans, realizada pelo Programa
de Controle da Doença de Chagas (PCDCh), algumas espécies, como Panstrongylus …