The 1899 United States Kissing Bug Epidemic

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015 Dec 31;9(12):e0004117. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004117. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Melissa N Garcia¹, Daisy Hernandez², Rodion Gorchakov¹, Kristy O Murray¹, Peter J Hotez¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
² Department of English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Animals
Chagas Disease / epidemiology
Chagas Disease / history*
Chagas Disease / transmission
Epidemics / history*
History, 19th Century
Humans
Insect Bites and Stings / complications
Insect Bites and Stings / history*
Insect Vectors / parasitology*
Triatoma / parasitology*
Trypanosoma cruzi / isolation & purification*
United States / epidemiology

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.