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Kissing Bug
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Kissing Bug
As commonly used, any bug that acts as a vector for Chagas disease, so named because they often bite on the face. It is a cone-nosed haematophagous insect with various hosts in the tropics and subtropics; it measures 1-4 cm and is ‘autumn-colored’; its bite elicits papules, painful urticaria, haemorrhagic bulla, occasionally angiooedema, anaphylactoid reaction, and shock; it is also the vector for trypanosoma—Chaga’s disease—causing inflammation, atrophy and fibrosis of Auerbach’s plexus ganglion cells, resulting in acquired megacolon
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Ault, Exotic stock of Trypanosoma cruzi (Schisotrypanum) capable of development in and transmission by Triatoma Protracta from California: public health implications, Amer.
Persistence aspects of an epidemic model of Chagas disease by Das, Kalyan; Mukherjee, D. / Tamsui Oxford Journal of Mathematical Sciences
A first application was an attempt to identify mammalian hosts of the Triatoma protracta group of Chagas disease vectors in Mexico (22), which succeeded in anticipating the mammal hosts of 5 of 5 species for which a test was possible.
Ecologic niche modeling and spatial patterns of disease transmission by Peterson, A. Townsend / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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