| american trypanosomiasis (chagas' disease) in the caribbean. | chagas' disease (american trypanosomiasis) is endemic in nearly all central and south american countries facing the caribbean basin. since 1960, reports from the islands of aruba, curaçao, jamaica, and trinidad have confirmed the presence of trypanosoma cruzi, blood-sucking triatomine bugs, and wild animals infected with the parasite. it was also established that t. cruzi, triatomine bugs, infected wild animal reservoirs, and people with a positive serologic test for t. cruzi antibodies are to b ... | 1978 | 96895 |
| studies on vectors of trypanosoma cruzi in trinidad, west indies. | studies on vectors of trypanosoma cruzi chagas were conducted during 1982-85 as part of an investigation on the epidemiological status of american trypanosomiasis in trinidad, west indies. a total of 148 reduviid bugs were collected from caves, armadillo nests and at light traps, comprising four sylvatic species and totalling 120 panstrongylus geniculatus (latreille), two p. rufotuberculatus (champion), twelve rhodnius pictipes stal and fourteen eratyrus mucronatus stal. a significantly higher l ... | 1992 | 1421480 |
| serological investigations for chagas' disease in trinidad. | a total of 512 sera was examined, using the indirect fluorescent antibody test, for antibodies to trypanosoma cruzi. no positive reactions were detected even for samples from individuals with related cardiac symptoms. these findings suggest that there is little or no human transmission of t. cruzi occurring in the island of trinidad. | 1991 | 1907055 |
| strain identification of trypanosoma cruzi isolated from panstrongylus geniculatus in trinidad, west indies. | | 1989 | 2692229 |
| trypanosoma cruzi infection in blood-sucking reduviid bugs in trinidad. | | 1966 | 4959388 |
| chagas disease in north-west argentina: association between trypanosoma cruzi parasitaemia in dogs and cats and infection rates in domestic triatoma infestans. | the association between trypanosoma cruzi parasitaemia in dogs and cats and tryp. cruzi infection rates in domestic triatoma infestans was studied in a cross-sectional survey of 31 houses (89%) in the rural villages of trinidad and mercedes, north-west argentina, where no spraying of insecticides had ever been done. similar prevalence rates of parasitaemia, determined by xenodiagnosis, were recorded among 68 dogs (41.2%) and 28 cats (39.3%). bug infection rates were significantly associated with ... | 1993 | 8465382 |