Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease present in the Americas, is caused by the
parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is transmitted by triatomine kissing bug vectors. Hundreds …

Background The 152 extant species of kissing bug include important vectors of the
debilitating, chronic, and often fatal Chagas disease, which affects several million people …

Chagas disease is a leading cause of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in Latin America and
an infection of emerging importance in the USA. Recent studies have uncovered evidence of …

Background Trypanosoma cruzi is the etiologic agent of Chagas disease throughout the
Americas. Few population-level studies have examined the epidemiology of canine infection …

Integrating how biodiversity and infectious disease dynamics are linked at multiple levels
and scales is highly challenging. Chagas disease is a vector‐borne disease, with …

Background Chagas disease, caused by the vector-borne protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is
increasingly recognized in the southern US Government-owned working dogs along the …

The host–vector–parasite interactions in Chagas disease peridomestic transmission cycles
in the United States are not yet well understood. Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastida …

Wildlife species are critical for both feeding vectors and serving as reservoirs of zoonotic
vector-borne pathogens. Transmission pathways leading to disease in humans or other …

Abstract Protozoan pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas, 1909) is the etiologic agent of
Chagas disease, which affects millions of people in Latin America. Recently, the disease …

To evaluate human risk for Chagas disease, we molecularly identified blood meal sources
and prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among 49 Triatoma sanguisuga kissing …