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Potential impact of climate change on the geographical distribution of two wild vectors of Chagas disease in Chile: Mepraia spinolai and Mepraia gajardoi

BACKGROUND: Mepraia gajardoi and Mepraia spinolai are endemic triatomine vector species of Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that causes Chagas disease. These vectors inhabit arid, semiarid and Mediterranean areas of Chile. Mepraia gajardoi occurs from 18° to 25°S, and M. spinolai from 26° to 34°S. Even...

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Autores principales: Garrido, Rubén, Bacigalupo, Antonella, Peña-Gómez, Francisco, Bustamante, Ramiro O., Cattan, Pedro E., Gorla, David E., Botto-Mahan, Carezza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31610815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3744-9