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DOI	10.3390/insects12070654
	Kissing Bug Intrusions into Homes in the Southwest United States
	Klotz, Stephen A.; Smith, Shannon L.; Schmidt, Justin O.
通讯作者	Klotz, SA (corresponding author), Univ Arizona, Dept Med & Family & Community Med, Div Infect Dis, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA.
来源期刊	INSECTS
EISSN	2075-4450
出版年	2021
卷号	12 期号:7
英文摘要	Simple Summary Kissing bugs are a nuisance insect in the Desert Southwest of the United States. As people build their homes in kissing bug habitats, bugs frequently enter the homes to obtain a blood meal from the human and pet inhabitants. Proteins in bug saliva can cause severe allergic reactions, although the bite itself is painless. Many kissing bugs harbor the parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, in their gastrointestinal tract and pass it in their feces. This parasite causes Chagas disease in humans and many mammals, particularly in Central and South America. Fortunately, few human infections occur in the US. In this article, we investigate homes that kissing bugs have entered in the Southwest and attempt to determine the risk this poses for homeowners for infection and measures that can be taken to reduce intrusion. Kissing bugs readily enter homes in the Sonoran Desert and bite the residents. Their saliva is highly antigenic, causing local and systemic skin reactions and life-threatening anaphylaxis. We attempted to determine what characteristics of homesites may have contributed to home intrusion by kissing bugs. Extensive and detailed information about the homes and the home environment was collected from 78 homeowners in Tucson who suffered kissing bug intrusions. Homeowners collected 298 Triatoma rubida in and around their homes. Of the homes entered by kissing bugs, 29 of 46 (63%) contained bugs harboring Trypanosoma cruzi. Although in the aggregate, homeowners were bitten > 2200 times, no individual tested positive for Chagas disease (N = 116). Although yearly intrusion likely occurs in some homes, T. rubida does not domiciliate within homesites in the Desert Southwest. We conclude there is little risk to homeowners for Chagas disease given the current behavior of resident kissing bugs and absent ingesting kissing bug fecal matter.
英文关键词	kissing bug insect bites Chagas disease Trypanosoma cruzi allergic reactions to insect bites Triatoma rubida Triatoma protracta
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000676361400001
WOS关键词	AUTOCHTHONOUS CHAGAS-DISEASE ; VECTORS ; BITES ; RISK
WOS类目	Entomology
WOS研究方向	Entomology
来源机构	University of Arizona
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363591
作者单位	[Klotz, Stephen A.; Smith, Shannon L.] Univ Arizona, Dept Med & Family & Community Med, Div Infect Dis, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA; [Schmidt, Justin O.] Univ Arizona, Southwestern Biol Inst, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA; [Schmidt, Justin O.] Univ Arizona, Dept Entomol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Klotz, Stephen A.,Smith, Shannon L.,Schmidt, Justin O.. Kissing Bug Intrusions into Homes in the Southwest United States[J]. University of Arizona,2021,12(7).
APA	Klotz, Stephen A.,Smith, Shannon L.,&Schmidt, Justin O..(2021).Kissing Bug Intrusions into Homes in the Southwest United States.INSECTS,12(7).
MLA	Klotz, Stephen A.,et al."Kissing Bug Intrusions into Homes in the Southwest United States".INSECTS 12.7(2021).