Metabolic signatures of triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi unveiled by metabolomics.

Chagas disease is a trypanosomiasis whose causative agent is the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans by hematophagous insects known as triatomines and affects a large proportion of South America. The digestive tract of the insect vectors in which T. cruzi develops co...

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Main Authors: Luis Caetano M Antunes, Jun Han, Jingxi Pan, Carlos J C Moreira, Patrícia Azambuja, Christoph H Borchers, Nicolas Carels
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3813737?pdf=render