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SUBMITTER: Diaz-Garrido P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6165835 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Díaz-Garrido Paulina P Sepúlveda-Robles Omar O Martínez-Martínez Ignacio I Espinoza Bertha B
Bioscience reports 20180928 5
Chagas disease remains a serious health problem for countries where the most common mode of transmission is infection contracted from the feces of a Triatominae insect vector. In México, 32 species of Triatoma have been identified; amongst them, <i>Triatoma (Meccus) pallidipennis</i> is an endemic species reported to have high percentages of infection with <i>T. cruzi</i> Defensins, cysteine-rich cationic peptides, are a family of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); the synthesis of these molecules i ...[more]