Cultivation-independent methods reveal differences among bacterial gut microbiota in triatomine vectors of Chagas disease.

• Main Authors: Fabio Faria da Mota (Author), Lourena Pinheiro Marinho (Author), Carlos José de Carvalho Moreira (Author), Marli Maria Lima (Author), Cícero Brasileiro Mello (Author), Eloi Souza Garcia (Author), Nicolas Carels (Author), Patricia Azambuja (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: Chagas disease is a trypanosomiasis whose agent is the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans by hematophagous bugs known as triatomines. Even though insecticide treatments allow effective control of these bugs in most Latin American countries where Chagas d...