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Question:Which vector was responsible for infecting this 14-year-old immigrant from Cameroon?
Chrysops fly - Mosquito - Reduviid bug - Sand fly - Tsetse fly
Reduviid bugs live in the burrows or nests of wild animals, and in dark, sheltered areas of human homes.
Reduviid bugs are most active at night.
The reduviid bugs are attracted to CO2 in exhaled breath, and then after finding their host this way, they create a wound while feeding and then defecate into the wound. However, dogs can also be infected by vector contamination of existing wounds, by ingestion of the tissues of wild animal hosts, by ingestion of the reduviid bugs themselves and transplacentally or through the milk.
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| Sand fly - the most horrible insect in the world? |
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| Tsetse fly |
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