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 ...

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 ...

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...

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.

Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub ...

Whilst these particular triatomine bugs were ubiquitous across the country, the Trypanosoma cruzi infection was unevenly distributed among the 14 Salvadoran departments (administrative divisions).

“Trypanosoma can manifest itself as a skin disease. We are collecting mosquito larve, flies, mosquitoes and blood samples of animals in Ratnapura, Balangoda and Embilipitiya for laboratory tests.

Ward J. Mac Neal, The Life-History of Trypanosoma Lewisi and Trypanosoma Brucei, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, No. 4 (Nov. 5, 1904), pp. 517-543 ...

Die Gebiete der durch Trypanosoma brucei gambiense ausgelösten westafrikanischen Trypanosomiasis liegen in West- und Zentralafrika und umfassen 24 Länder, unter anderem Angola, Sudan, ...