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Which bug transmits chagas disease?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

This is commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an assassin bugs of the subfamily Triatominae (family Reduviidae) most commonly species belonging to the genera Triatoma, Rhodnius and Panstrongylus.

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