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| | Search Tuna Report for protozoosis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The infection is usually transmitted via the feces of blood-sucking insect vectors (reduviid bugs). |
 | | The infection is mostly found in small mammals (sylvatic cycle), and human disease results from the colonization of the human habitat by some vector species (domestic cycle). |
 | | It is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, one of the kinetoplastid flagellates, transmitted to humans in most cases by insects of the subfamily Triatominae Family Reduviidae known in the different countries as assassin bug, vinchuca, kissing bug, chipo, barbeiro, etc.... |
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