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ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2020

Preliminary Characterization of Triatomine Bug Blood Meals on the Island of Trinidad Reveals Opportunistic Feeding Behavior on Both Human and Animal Hosts.

Alexandra Hylton, Daniel M Fitzpatrick, Rod Suepaul, Andrew P Dobson, Roxanne A Charles, Jennifer K Peterson

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Article in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Who Feeds theMicroorganisms · 2026
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  4. Chagas disease in Trinidad and Tobago - a call to action.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025
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  7. Blood-Meal Sources andMicroorganisms · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alexandra HyltonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Daniel M FitzpatrickDepartment of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada.ORCID 0000-0002-1411-4178
Rod SuepaulDepartment of Basic Veterinary Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.
Andrew P DobsonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Roxanne A CharlesDepartment of Basic Veterinary Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.
Jennifer K PetersonDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0274-6143

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with

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blood meal analysischagas diseasePanstrongylus geniculatusRhodnius pictipestriatomine bugsTrinidad and TobagoTrypanosoma cruzivector host-feeding preferencesWest Indies

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PMID33158108
PMCPMC7709638

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