"Triatominae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A subfamily of assassin bugs (REDUVIIDAE) that are obligate blood-suckers of vertebrates. Included are the genera TRIATOMA; RHODNIUS; and PANSTRONGYLUS, which are vectors of TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, the agent of CHAGAS DISEASE in humans.
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D014225
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.500.131.617.412.420.700.850
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| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Triatominae" by people in Profiles.
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The identification of two Trypanosoma cruzi I genotypes from domestic and sylvatic transmission cycles in Colombia based on a single polymerase chain reaction amplification of the spliced-leader intergenic region. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 2013 Nov; 108(7):932-5.