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Trypanosoma cruzi Transmission Among Captive Nonhuman Primates, Wildlife, and Vectors
1 Mar 2018
Abstract excerpt
Natural infection of captive nonhuman primates (NHPs) with Trypanosoma cruzi (agent of Chagas disease) is an increasingly recognized problem in facilities across the southern USA, with negative consequences for NHP health and biomedical research. We explored a central Texas NHP facility as a nidus of transmission by characterizing parasite discrete typing units (DTU) in seropositive rhesus macaques (Macaca...
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