| trypanosoma cruzi (kinetoplastida trypanosomatidae): ecology of the transmission cycle in the wild environment of the andean valley of cochabamba, bolivia. | an active trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycle maintained by wild rodents in the andean valleys of cochabamba bolivia is described. wild and domestic triatoma infestans with 60% infection with t. cruzi were found and was evidenced in 47.5% (rodents) and 26.7% (marsupial) by parasitological and/or serologycal methods. phyllotis ocilae and the marsupial species thylamys elegans, are the most important reservoirs followed by bolomys lactens and akodon boliviensis. in spite of both genotypes (tci an ... | 2006 | 16797540 |