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  • noun Any of many bloodsucking insects (assassin bugs etc) of the subfamily Triatominae

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Examples

  • Cracks can also develop due to drying shrinkage, thermal and mechanical stresses, or bad quality materials and workmanship, and these should be carefully sealed, especially in walls, to avoid nesting of insects, such as triatomine bugs, which are responsible for the Chagas disease (an illness from which more than 20 million people in the rural areas of Latin America are suffering).

    Chapter 6 1988

  • The infected blood-sucking triatomine, causes Chagas disease by passing trypanosomes

    The Times of India 2010

  • The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is the triatomine insect, or "kissing bug," which sucks the blood of mammals - cats, dogs and humans.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), endemic to South and Central America, is spread by infected triatomine bugs, known as the "kissing bugs," that bite people.

    Latest Articles OnEarth Magazine 2010

  • Parents 24 and 25 along with their F2 progeny 33 and 36 lived in a triatomine-free region where the possibility of insect vector-transmitted

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010

  • Parents 24 and 25 along with their F2 progeny 33 and 36 lived in a triatomine-free region where the possibility of insect vector-transmitted

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010

  • Therefore, the researchers held discussions with groups of residents from communities around Arequipa to talk about changes in their communities in the past 40 years, including the communities 'evolving demographics and the historical and current presence of triatomine insects, known locally as chirimachas.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Therefore, the researchers held discussions with groups of residents from communities around Arequipa to talk about changes in their communities in the past 40 years, including the communities 'evolving demographics and the historical and current presence of triatomine insects, known locally as chirimachas.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Therefore, the researchers held discussions with groups of residents from communities around Arequipa to talk about changes in their communities in the past 40 years, including the communities 'evolving demographics and the historical and current presence of triatomine insects, known locally as chirimachas.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Therefore, the researchers held discussions with groups of residents from communities around Arequipa to talk about changes in their communities in the past 40 years, including the communities 'evolving demographics and the historical and current presence of triatomine insects, known locally as chirimachas.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

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