{"id":25338,"date":"2019-04-17T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=25338"},"modified":"2019-04-17T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T19:15:04","slug":"unam-researchers-creates-bio-fungicide-against-chagas-transmitter-kissing-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/unam-researchers-creates-bio-fungicide-against-chagas-transmitter-kissing-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"UNAM researchers creates bio-fungicide against Chagas-transmitter kissing bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/unam-fungicida-chinche-besucona-chagas-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"130\" width=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/unam-fungicida-chinche-besucona-chagas-2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/unam-fungicida-chinche-besucona-chagas-2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/unam-fungicida-chinche-besucona-chagas-2-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) develop a bio-fungicide against kissing bug, one of the main transmitters of Chagas disease<\/strong>, a condition affecting an estimate of 8 million people mostly in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong>condition is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the protozoan <em>Trypanosoma cruzi<\/em><\/strong>, spread mostly by insects commonly known as &#8220;kissing bugs&#8221;, and cause serious cardiac and gastrointestinal complications.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the <strong>number of infected people in Mexico amounts 1.1 million and, since there is no vaccine, vector control is the most useful method of prevention<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Paz Mar\u00eda Salazar Schettino, head of the Department of Microbiology and Parasitology of the Faculty of Medicine (FM) of the UNAM said <strong>in Mexico the infection occurs mainly through vector (transmitting insect) and secondly by blood transfusion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar Schettino&#8217;s team, together with researchers from the FM Basic Mycology Laboratory led by Concepci\u00f3n Toriello N\u00e1jera and the Autonomous University of Morelos, <strong>developed a biological fungicide based on a strain of the fungus <em>Metarhizium anisopliae<\/em>, capable of eliminating 88 to 92 percent of <em>M. pallidipennis<\/em> (kissing bug), an endemic species of greater abundance and distribution in Mexico<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>La Jornada<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) develop a bio-fungicide against kissing bug, one of the main transmitters of Chagas disease, a condition affecting an estimate of 8 million people mostly in Latin America. 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