Chagas disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma
cruzi, and was discovered in 1909 by the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas (1879–1934). 1 …

Due to its public health importance, as vectors of Chagas disease, the subfamily
Triatominae, has received the attention of taxonomists. Knowing how to correctly identify …

 Abstract Panstrongylusnoireauisp. nov. from Bolivia is described based on male and female
specimens. Although morphologically almost indistinguishable from …

Triatomine bugs, the vectors of Chagas disease, feed primarily on vertebrate blood and live
in close association with their hosts. Here we provide an updated synthesis of current …

Most of the human infections with Trypanosoma cruzi are caused by triatomine species
adapted to thrive in domestic habitats and blood-feed on humans. Residual house spraying …

Diagnose. Insetos hemimetábolos, terrestres, aquáticos ou semiaquáticos. Variam de 0, 5 a
130 mm de comprimento. A coloração geralmente é uniforme, inconspícua, porém há …

Trypanosoma cruzi, the causal agent of Chagas disease, is mainly transmitted by insects of
the Triatominae subfamily. In Colombia, there are 26 triatomine species, and 16 of them are …

Chagas disease is one of the most important parasitic infections in Latin America. The main
vector of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi in America is Triatoma infestans, a blood-sucking …

Background When the first systematic list of mosquitoes in Nepal was reported in 1990,
there was no description of Aedes aegypti (L.), while Aedes albopictus (Skuse) has been …

The Triatominae subfamily includes 151 extant and three fossil species. Several species can
transmit the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease …