Kissing bugs, also known as triatomine bugs or conenose bugs, are blood-sucking insects that get their nickname from their ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is continuing efforts to update scientific advice on foodborne parasites. A ...

Researchers at the University of Georgia's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases have developed the first test to ...

Kissing bugs tend to bite people on the face and near the mouth. They carry a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which can develop into an infection. Triatomine bugs, or triatomines, are native to ...

Chagas' disease, a chronic parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is considered to be one of the neglected tropical diseases. 1 Although Chagas' disease was identified more ...

Trypanosoma cruzi, the protozoan parasite and cause of Chagas disease, is widely distributed in many vertebrate and triatomine species throughout North, Central, and South America.

Bed bugs, like the triatomines, can transmit Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, one of the most prevalent and deadly diseases in the Americas, research has confirmed.

Chagas disease isn’t well-known in America, but it’s been around for thousands of years. A parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) causes it. The disease infects up to 8 million people ...

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Triatomine bugs carry it and can infect humans with ... More than 300,000 people in the United States have T. cruzi infections, ...

The paper, First Report of Chagas Disease Vector Species Triatoma sanguisuga (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Infected with Trypanosoma cruzi in Delaware, was authored by Jennifer K. Peterson (University of ...

Scientifically referred to as triatomine bugs, these blood-sucking insects can carry in their feces and pass on to humans the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi that causes Chagas disease, a lifelong ...