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1. Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the sylvatic kissing bug Mepraia gajardoi from the Chilean Southern Pacific Ocean coast.

Author

Botto-Mahan C, Sepúlveda M, Vidal M, Acuña-Retamar M, Ortiz S, and Solari A

Subjects
Animals, Chile, DNA, Protozoan analysis, DNA, Protozoan isolation & purification, Host-Parasite Interactions, Pacific Ocean, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Trypanosoma cruzi classification, Trypanosoma cruzi genetics, Chagas Disease transmission, Insect Vectors parasitology, Reduviidae parasitology, Trypanosoma cruzi isolation & purification
Abstract

The Southern Pacific Ocean coast has been traditionally considered a non-active transmission area for Chagas disease. In this report, we show evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the sylvatic kissing bug Mepraia gajardoi from the northern Chilean coast.

Published
2008
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2. Susceptibility of Mepraia spinolai and Triatoma infestans to different Trypanosoma cruzi strains from naturally infected rodent hosts.

Author

Campos R, Acuña-Retamar M, Botto-Mahan C, Ortiz S, Cattan PE, and Solari A

Subjects
Animals, Chagas Disease diagnosis, Chagas Disease parasitology, Disease Susceptibility, Genotype, Polymerase Chain Reaction methods, Rats, Trypanosoma cruzi isolation & purification, Xenodiagnosis methods, Zoonoses parasitology, Insect Vectors parasitology, Octodon parasitology, Reduviidae parasitology, Triatominae parasitology, Trypanosoma cruzi physiology
Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a zoonosis involving domestic and sylvatic mammalian reservoirs. Since scarce information has been published about the susceptibility of T. cruzi lineages to other triatomine species besides Triatoma infestans, we evaluate the susceptibility of T. infestans and Mepraia spinolai to different T. cruzi lineages, originated from naturally infected Octodon degus rodents as mammal host. Xenodiagnosis-PCR methods to detect T. cruzi positive rodents and genotyping to differentiate T. cruzi lineages (TcI, TcIIb, TcIId and TcIIe) identified singly and mixed T. cruzi infections. More infections and nearly all mixed infections were identified using the wild vector M. spinolai than T. infestans.

Published
2007
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