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Bugging out over Chagas: Bioluminescent protozoans and old drugs might help unravel kissing-bug disease

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“The first time I saw that, I felt desperate,” says Batista, who at the time in 2010 was working as a physician with Doctors Without Borders. “People were playing with their enemies, because they didn't know that this is the bug causing the disease that was killing their families, and has been for generations.”

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Rogers, N. Bugging out over Chagas: Bioluminescent protozoans and old drugs might help unravel kissing-bug disease. Nat Med 21, 1108–1110 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1015-1108

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