June 2024 |Written by: J.K. Peterson, PhD Assistant Professor Medical Entomology University of Delaware Graduate students: Alex Kelley, Hanna Cortes What is a kissing bug? Kissing bugs are insects ...

The epimastigote form proliferates inside the kissing bug, then turns into trypomastigotes in the bloodstream and invades host cells. The final form, amastigotes, proliferate within host cells ...