<prompt> Chagas disease and is transmitted by the following:Kissing bugsTsetse fliesDogsBirds  <response>: Chagas disease is transmitted by tsetse flies. There are two distinct types of human trypanosomes: African, which causes sleeping sickness and is transmitted by tsetse flies eg, Glossina: Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense; American, which causes Chagas disease and is transmitted by kissing bugs eg, Triatoma: Trypanosoma cruzi. Ref: 2013. Chapter 46. Medical Parasitology. In Brooks G.F., Carroll K.C., Butel J.S., Morse S.A., Mietzner T.A. Eds, Jawetz, Melnick, Adelbergs Medical Microbiology, 26e. 