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Reduviidae

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Re·du·vi·i·dae (rd-v-d, rj-)
n.
A family of predatory insects comprising the assassin bugs, which attack humans and other animals. It includes the subfamily Triatominae, the kissing or cone-nose bugs, whose type genus Triatoma includes vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi.
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Transmission is usually by contamination of a person with parasite-laden feces of a triatomine bug (family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae, commonly known as kissing bugs), which deposits feces on the skin while feeding.
Autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Louisiana by Wesson, Dawn / Emerging Infectious Diseases
One school of thought suggests that triatomines are very recently evolved from predatory Reduviidae, another, in part based on molecular phylogenetics, that triatomines and the blood sucking life style are older.
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Ecological niche modeling and differentiation of populations of Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911, the most important Chagas disease vector in northeastern Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae).
Ecologic niche modeling and spatial patterns of disease transmission by Peterson, A. Townsend / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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