The evolutionary origin of diversity in Chagas disease vectors

SA Justi, C Galvão - Trends in parasitology, 2017 - cell.com
Chagas disease is amongst the ten most important neglected tropical diseases but
knowledge on the diversification of its vectors, Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), is very …

Climate change and the neglected tropical diseases

M Booth - Advances in parasitology, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to impact across every domain of society, including health. The
majority of the world's population is susceptible to pathological, infectious disease whose life …

Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758.

J Grazia, DM Takiya, VRS WOLFF, CF Schwertner… - 2024 - alice.cnptia.embrapa.br
Diagnose. Insetos hemimetábolos, terrestres, aquáticos ou semiaquáticos. Variam de 0, 5 a
130 mm de comprimento. A coloração geralmente é uniforme, inconspícua, porém há …

What do you need to know before studying Chagas disease? A beginner's guide

JA De Fuentes-Vicente, NG Santos-Hernández… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease is one of the most important tropical infections in the world and mainly
affects poor people. The causative agent is the hemoflagellate protozoan Trypanosoma …

Modelling the climatic suitability of Chagas disease vectors on a global scale

FE Eberhard, S Cunze, J Kochmann, S Klimpel - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The Triatominae are vectors for Trypanosoma cruzi, the aetiological agent of the neglected
tropical Chagas disease. Their distribution stretches across Latin America, with some …

Identification of blood-feeding sources in Panstrongylus, Psammolestes, Rhodnius and Triatoma using amplicon-based next-generation sequencing

LM Arias-Giraldo, M Muñoz, C Hernández, G Herrera… - Parasites & vectors, 2020 - Springer
Background Triatomines are hematophagous insects that play an important role as vectors
of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease. These insects have adapted …

Taxonomy

C Galvão - Triatominae-The Biology of Chagas Disease Vectors, 2021 - Springer
The members of the subfamily Triatominae are true bugs specialized in blood-sucking. All
species are potential vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas, 1909), the causative agent of …

A primitive triatomine bug, Paleotriatoma metaxytaxa gen. et sp. nov.(Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar

G Poinar Jr - Cretaceous Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study describes a primitive kissing bug (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) in
mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. The fossil, which is described as …

Dynamic of Composition and Diversity of Gut Microbiota in Triatoma rubrofasciata in Different Developmental Stages and Environmental Conditions

Y Hu, H Xie, M Gao, P Huang, H Zhou, Y Ma… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Triatoma rubrofasciata (T. rubrofasciata), one kind of triatomine insects, is the vector of
Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), which lead to American trypanosomiasis. Although the gut …

DataTri, a database of American triatomine species occurrence

S Ceccarelli, A Balsalobre, P Medone, ME Cano… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, is transmitted to mammals-
including humans-by insect vectors of the subfamily Triatominae. We present the results of a …