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4 October 2017 Blood Meal Source Characterization Using Illumina Sequencing in the Chagas Disease Vector Rhodnius pallescens (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Panamá
Troy J. Kieran, Nicole L. Gottdenker, Christina P. Varian, Azael Saldaña, Nicolas Means, Darlisha Owens, Jose E. Calzada, Travis C. Glenn
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Accurate blood meal identification is critical to understand hematophagous vector-host relationships. This study describes a customizable Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) approach to identify blood meals from Rhodnius pallescens (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) triatomines using multiple barcoded primers and existing software to pick operational taxonomic units and match sequences for blood meal identification. We precisely identified all positive control samples using this method and further examined 74 wild-caught R. pallescens samples. With this novel blood meal identification method, we detected 13 vertebrate species in the blood meals, as well as single and multiple blood meals in individual bugs. Our results demonstrate the reliability and descriptive uses of our method.

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Troy J. Kieran, Nicole L. Gottdenker, Christina P. Varian, Azael Saldaña, Nicolas Means, Darlisha Owens, Jose E. Calzada, and Travis C. Glenn "Blood Meal Source Characterization Using Illumina Sequencing in the Chagas Disease Vector Rhodnius pallescens (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Panamá," Journal of Medical Entomology 54(6), 1786-1789, (4 October 2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjx170
Received: 14 April 2017; Accepted: 22 July 2017; Published: 4 October 2017
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KEYWORDS
Blood meal identification
disease vector
high-throughput DNA sequencing
PCR
Triatominae
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