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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2021

Multiple Discrete Typing Units of Trypanosoma cruzi Infect Sylvatic Triatoma dimidiata and Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus in Southeast Mexico.

Díaz-Valdez Joselín, Martínez Ignacio, Rodríguez-Moreno Ángel, Gutiérrez-Granados Gabriel, León-Villegas Rodrigo Isaias, Sánchez-Cordero Víctor, Fraga-Nodarse Jorge, Ángeles-Chimal Jose, Espinoza Bertha

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The Low Variability of Tc24 inPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Díaz-Valdez JoselínDepartamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Martínez IgnacioDepartamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Rodríguez-Moreno ÁngelInstituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Gutiérrez-Granados GabrielInstituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
León-Villegas Rodrigo IsaiasInstituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Sánchez-Cordero VíctorInstituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Fraga-Nodarse JorgeDepartamento de Parasitología, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kouri, La Habana, Cuba.
Ángeles-Chimal JoseFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
Espinoza BerthaDepartamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXInstituto de Medicina Tropical “Pedro Kourí” · CUUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos · MX

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is an infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. According to its genetic characteristics, this parasite is divided into six groups (TcI-TcVI) called discrete typing units (DTUs). Trypanosoma cruzi is transmitted to humans by insects of the Triatominae family. In Mexico, despite having a great variety of triatomine species, little is known about vector sylvatic populations and the DTUs associated with them. In this work, molecular markers such as minicircle, miniexon, 18S, and 24S ribosomal genes and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of the hsp70 gene were used to determine the DTUs present in vectors from rural communities and sylvatic areas inside the Biosphere Reserve Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, in southeast Mexico. One hundred triatomines were collected and two species were identified: Triatoma dimidiata and Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus. The infection with T. cruzi was determined in 29% of analyzed vectors from the domestic area and TcI was the predominant DTU. Furthermore, 71% of vectors from the sylvatic environment were infected and TcI, TcII, TcIV, and TcVI were identified. One female and one male of P. rufotuberculatus were infected only with TcI. This is the first report of TcVI in T. dimidiata from the sylvatic area in México and the first report of P. rufotuberculatus infected with T. cruzi in Mexico.

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AnimalsHost-Parasite InteractionsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsMexicoPanstrongylusPolymorphism, GeneticRNA, RibosomalSpecies SpecificityTriatomaTrypanosoma cruziHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsRNA, Ribosomal

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PMID34398820
PMCPMC8592174
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