Projected future distributions of vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in North America under climate change scenarios.

• Main Authors: Miroslava Garza (Author), Teresa Patricia Feria Arroyo (Author), Edgar A Casillas (Author), Victor Sanchez-Cordero (Author), Chissa-Louise Rivaldi (Author), Sahotra Sarkar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chagas disease kills approximately 45 thousand people annually and affects 10 million people in Latin America and the southern United States. The parasite that causes the disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, can be transmitted by insects of the family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae. Any study that attempt...