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Wiktionary
- n. Any of many bloodsucking insects (assassin bugs etc) of the subfamily Triatominae
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).”
“The parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is the triatomine insect, or "kissing bug," which sucks the blood of mammals - cats, dogs and humans.”
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“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”
“The infected blood-sucking triatomine, causes Chagas disease by passing trypanosomes”
“Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis), endemic to South and Central America, is spread by infected triatomine bugs, known as the "kissing bugs," that bite people.”
“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.”
“(e.g. the number of infected mosquito bites per person-month) triatomine bugs certain type of crawling bugs that may transmit Chagas disease”
“a disease of animals and humans caused by Trypanosoma parasites, which are transmitted by tsetse flies in Africa and by triatomine bugs in South and Central America.”
“Because they tend to feed on people’s faces, triatomine bugs are also known as “kissing bugs.””
“a, b, and c were triatomine exposure-free for the previous three decades.”
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