triatomine bug
kissing bug

Triatomine bugs such as Rhodnius prolixus are vectors of Chagas disease.

Triatomine bugs are responsible for the transmission of a trypanosome, Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas Disease.

A Triatomine bug, or kissing bug, that transmits the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes Chagas Disease.

There is no vaccine for Chagas Disease, so to decrease the prevalence of the disease, the spread of the T. gerstaeckeri and other Triatomine bugs must be limited.

The Triatomine bugs defecate during feeding and the excrement contains the parasites which are accidentally smeared into the open wound by the host responding to pain and irritation from the bite.

Identification of Bloodmeal Sources and Trypanosoma Cruzi Infection in Triatomine Bugs from Residential Settings in Texas, the United States.

How do these kissing bugs get infected in the first place?

The morning's chore is to transfer some kissing bugs from one container to another.

It is spread mostly by insects known as Triatominae or kissing bugs.

Kissing bugs are suspected of having infected two Los Angeles high school students recently.

Prevention mostly involves eliminating kissing bugs and avoiding their bites.

Chagas’ disease is spread by insects known as assassin or kissing bugs which feed around a victim’s mouth during sleep.

"Kissing bugs" get their name from their habit of biting near the lips and eyes.

When a kissing bug is permitted to carry the transgenic bacterium, it lives here.

Newborn kissing bugs, experiments have confirmed, will happily ingest it.

Apparently not disgusted enough by being assaulted while sleeping, he later used a kissing bug as a party trick.

There is another source of Chagas disease infection in kissing bugs: coprophagy.

The next question was to begin asking what might happen if kissing bugs containing genetically altered bacteria were let loose in the real world.

Deadly kissing bugs in various stages of development, from little jerk to big jerk.

It is a parasitic infection transmitted through an insect commonly known as the "kissing bug."

The next morning, it is time to visit the Insectary, where the kissing bugs (in all of their various species) are bred and maintained.

Fortunately, baby kissing bugs love to probe adult fecal droplets right after birth.

Kissing bug season is winding down.

If the adult insects also happen to be infected with the Chagas disease parasite, then the young kissing bugs pick that up as well.

Because they tend to feed on people's faces, triatomine bugs are also known as "kissing bugs".

Baby kissing bugs don't have an important bacterial symbiont they need in their gut to help them digest food and create essential vitamins.

Triatoma species are commonly called Kissing Bugs because they bite around the mouth where skin is thinner.

Save for one group: the blood-sucking kissing bugs, so called because they typically bite humans painlessly around the mouth while we sleep.

It is spread by the reduviid bug, more widely known as the assassin or kissing bug.

Rhodnius prolixus is also known as the kissing bug because it tends to feed on the area around victims' mouths.