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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
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Triatoma sanguisuga Blood Meals and Potential for Chagas Disease, Louisiana, USA

Etienne Waleckx1Comments to Author , Julianne Suarez, Bethany Richards, and Patricia L. Dorn
Author affiliations: Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Vertebrate blood meal sources of Triatoma sanguisuga kissing bugs detected by 12S rDNA assay (10). The numbers of triatomines containing each vertebrate blood source are indicated in parenthesis. The numbers of haplotypes of each vertebrate source and the Trypanosoma cruzi infection prevalence in the triatomines containing this vertebrate blood source are indicated.

Figure. Vertebrate blood meal sources of Triatoma sanguisuga kissing bugs detected by 12S rDNA assay (10). The numbers of triatomines containing each vertebrate blood source are indicated in parenthesis. The numbers of haplotypes of each vertebrate source and the Trypanosoma cruzi infection prevalence in the triatomines containing this vertebrate blood source are indicated.

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1Current affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México

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