Lizards as Silent Hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi
Carezza Botto-Mahan
1 , Juana P. Correa
1, Raúl Araya-Donoso, Francisca Farías, Esteban San Juan, Nicol Quiroga, Ricardo Campos-Soto, Claudio Reyes-Olivares, and Daniel González-Acuña
Author affiliations: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (C. Botto-Mahan, F. Farías, E. San Juan, N. Quiroga); Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile (J.P. Correa); Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA (R. Araya-Donoso); Universidad Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile (R. Campos-Soto); Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago (C. Reyes-Olivares); Universidad de Concepción Campus Chillán, Chillán, Chile (D. González-Acuña)
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Figure 2. Transmission cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi parasites in the arid‒semiarid Mediterranean ecosystem of South America. Solid lines indicate known T. cruzi transmission between mammal hosts and kissing bugs, and dashed lines indicate transmission between lizards (newly described hosts) and kissing bugs.
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