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| | Chagas Disease - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, one of the kinetoplastid flagellates, transmitted to humans by triatomine insects known in the different countries as assassin bug, vinchuca, kissing bug, chipo, barbeiro, etc. Common triatomine vector species for trypanosomiasis belong to the genera Triatoma, Rhodinius, and Panstrongylus. |
 | | The most common transmitting species are Triatoma protracta and Triatoma infestans. |
 | | The disease causing agent is closely related to that of African sleeping sickness, although the assassin bug vector is not related to the tsetse fly, which carries African sleeping sickness. |
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