Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered 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 ...

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.

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

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).

The protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans by Triatomine bugs (also known as “kissing bugs”) and causes Chagas disease, begins to reproduce as soon as it enters the human body.

“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.

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense – Prominent in West Africa, this form of the disease is responsible for 98% of cases. Initial symptoms include intermittent fevers and headaches, ...