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The connection between Trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles by Triatoma brasiliensis brasiliensis: A threat to human health in an area susceptible to desertification in the Seridó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

• Vanessa Lima-Neiva ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: neivalv@gmail.com

  Affiliation Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-4290

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• Helena Keiko Toma,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Diagnóstico Molecular e Hematologia, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3203-5369

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• Lúcia Maria Abrantes Aguiar,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Secretaria de Estado da Saúde Pública, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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• Catarina Macedo Lopes,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Vigilância Entomológica em Diptera e Hemiptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz /FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8018-5110

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• Letícia Paschoaletto Dias,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6260-5142

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• Teresa Cristina Monte Gonçalves,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Vigilância Entomológica em Diptera e Hemiptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz /FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7472-0391

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• Jane Costa

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Biodiversidade Entomológica, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6664-1394

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