These constitute indirect evidence that dogs may not be significant intra-domiciliary reservoirs in these villages, which is consistent with their prevalence of infection with T . cruzi being twice as low as in humans ( Table 1 ), and with the inhabitants reporting that dogs do not sleep indoors.
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Epidemiological modeling of Trypanosoma cruzi: Low stercorarian transmission and failure of host adaptive immunity explain the frequency of mixed infections in humans.
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