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. 2020:2116:69-79.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0294-2_5.

Infecting Triatomines with Trypanosomes

Alessandra A Guarneri  1
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Infecting Triatomines with Trypanosomes

Alessandra A Guarneri. Methods Mol Biol. 2020.

Abstract

The infection of triatomines with trypanosomes can be performed with different forms of the parasite, and the procedure is important not only for vector-parasite interaction studies but also for maintaining the infectivity of parasite strains, which guarantees more realistic biological and molecular investigations. Here, I describe how to infect the vector Rhodnius prolixus, a model species, with two different species of Trypanosoma.

Keywords: Artificial feeding; Infection; Rhodnius prolixus; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli.

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