Browsing by Subject "vector-borne disease"
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(2017-07-08)Trypanosoma cruzi, agent of Chagas disease, is a zoonotic vector-borne protozoan that infects mammalian hosts throughout the Americas. Spillover from sylvatic cycles occurs when triatomine vectors bridge the parasite from ...
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(2019-03-07)Background: Typhus group rickettsia (TGR) can cause disease after exposure to Rickettsia typhi, or Rickettsia prowazekii, bacterium carried by fleas. Symptoms of TGR rickettsiosis are often non-specific, and there is ...