Papel de los murciélagos en el ciclo silvestre de la infección chagásica en la Guayana Venezolana / The role of bats in the life cycle of chagasic infection in the Venezuelan Guiana

ABSTRACT

A total of 44 wild bats from El Manteco (Bolívar State) were examined for trypanosomes, using three different sensitive parasitological methods. Trypanosoma cruzi like parasites were not found in Artibeus, Carollia. Mimon and Desmodus species which suggest a minimal role of bast in selvatic transmission cycles of Chagasic infection in Venezuelan Guiana