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Volume 28, Number 6—June 2022
Dispatch

Lizards as Silent Hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi

Carezza Botto-Mahan1Comments to Author , Juana P. Correa1, Raúl Araya-Donoso, Francisca Farías, Esteban San Juan, Nicol Quiroga, Ricardo Campos-Soto, Claudio Reyes-Olivares, and Daniel González-Acuña
Author affiliations: Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (C. Botto-Mahan, F. Farías, E. San Juan, N. Quiroga); Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile (J.P. Correa); Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA (R. Araya-Donoso); Universidad Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile (R. Campos-Soto); Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago (C. Reyes-Olivares); Universidad de Concepción Campus Chillán, Chillán, Chile (D. González-Acuña)

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Table

Lizard species from southwestern South America tested for Trypanosoma cruzi infection, 2011–2019*

Lizard species Common name No. infected/no. tested Infected tissue or organ† Competence (range)
Microlophus atacamensis
 Pacific Atacama racerunner
 11/13
 Blood
 ND
Liolaemus platei
 Plate's lizard
 18/18
 Liver, spleen, stomach, intestine, lung, heart, fat, muscle, bone, gonad, blood
 96.43 (50–100)
Liolaemus fuscus
 Dark lizard
 3/3
 Liver, spleen, stomach, intestine, lung, heart, fat, muscle, bone, gonad, blood
 ND
Garthia gaudichaudii Chilean marked gecko 10/10 Liver, stomach, intestine, lung, heart, muscle, bone ND

*Competence was assessed by real-time PCR on xenodiagnostic triatomine nymphs in Liolaemus platei lizard only. ND, not done. †Not all types of organs were obtained for all sampled lizards (Appendix Table 1).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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