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SUBMITTER: Roellig DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3770599 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roellig Dawn M DM Gomez-Puerta Luis A LA Mead Daniel G DG Pinto Jesus J Ancca-Juarez Jenny J Calderon Maritza M Bern Caryn C Gilman Robert H RH Cama Vitaliano A VA
PloS one 20130911 9
Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, is transmitted by hematophagous reduviid bugs within the subfamily Triatominae. These vectors take blood meals from a wide range of hosts, and their feeding behaviors have been used to investigate the ecology and epidemiology of T. cruzi. In this study we describe two PCR-based methodologies that amplify a fragment of the 16S mitochondrial rDNA, aimed to improve the identification of blood meal sources for Triatoma infestans: a.--Sequence ...[more]