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Description: Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease. | Description: Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease. | ||
− | Photo courtsey by CDC and Hardin | + | Photo courtsey by CDC and Hardin MD, University of Iowa (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hARDIN/MD/cdc/chagas6.html). |
[[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]] | [[Category: Tcruzi]] [[Category:Parasite Life Cycle ontology]] |
Revision as of 13:39, 23 September 2009
A bug of the large, cosmopolitan family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera, commonly involved in the transmission of Chagas disease in South America
Description: Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease. Photo courtsey by CDC and Hardin MD, University of Iowa (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hARDIN/MD/cdc/chagas6.html).