Field evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, diverse host use and invasion of human dwellings by the Chagas disease vector in Florida, USA

• Norman L. Beatty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Norman L. Beatty, Chanakya R. Bhosale

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: norman.beatty@medicine.ufl.edu

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3032-5741

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• Chanakya R. Bhosale ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Norman L. Beatty, Chanakya R. Bhosale

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America

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• Zoe S. White,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Carson W. Torhorst,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Kristen N. Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Rayann Dorleans,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Tanise M.S. Stenn,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, Florida, United States of America

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• Keswick C. Killets,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Rachel Curtis-Robles,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Nathan Burkett-Cadena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, Vero Beach, Florida, United States of America

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• Eva Nováková,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Gabriel L. Hamer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Sarah A. Hamer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Samantha M. Wisely

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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