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reduviid

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re·du·vi·id (r-dv-d)
n.
A member of the family Reduviidae; an assassin bug.


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The life cycle involves transmission by blood-sucking reduviid insects that carry infective (metacyclic trypomasgate) forms of Trypanosoma cruzi in their fecal fluids and deposit them on the stein at the time of procuring a blood meal.
WHO, A62/17, Chagas disease: control and elimination, Report by the WHO Secretariat, 20 March 2009 About Chagas disease Chagas disease is primarily transmitted by large, blood-sucking reduviid insects widely known as "the kissing bug", Chagas disease is endemic in 21 countries across Latin America, with an average of 14,000 deaths per year, Chagas disease kills more people in the region each year than any other parasite-born disease, including malaria.
japonicum fresh water The parasite penetrates intact skin Water snails are intermediate hosts Trypanosomiasis American American: Reduviid T.
 
 
 
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