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

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

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

The regulation of gene expression in Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, is based on post-transcriptional mechanisms. When environmental changes cause translational arrest, ...

Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. Endemic to 21 countries in the Americas, it poses a significant health burden in the region, affecting 6 million people and ...

Jennifer K. Peterson, University of Delaware assistant professor and medical entomologist, is studying the kissing bug in Delaware over the summer in a study funded by Delaware INBRE. She is setting ...

INTRODUCTION Discovered more than 100 years ago, Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, affects approximately 6 to 7 million people from regions in Latin America, such as Argentina ...

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 ...

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.

Oral ingestion of Trypanosoma cruzi through contaminated food and beverages, however, is increasing. Unlike vector transmission, oral transmission of Chagas disease entails high lethality in ...

Canine Chagas disease, which is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (or T. cruzi), is estimated to be present in 2% to 6% of dogs in the southern U.S.