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Phlebotominae fauna in the Province of Tucumán, Argentina [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2002
American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis is endemic in the province of Tucumán since 1916 where the first Argentinian case of leishmaniasis was reported. An epidemic outbreak took place in the province during 1986-1988, after that the number of cases increased
Elizabeth CÓRDOBA LANÚS, Oscar Daniel SALOMÓN   +1 more
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Phlebotomine sand flies (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in an area of canine infection caused by Leishmania infantum in the state of Amapá, eastern Amazon. [PDF]

Rev Bras Parasitol Vet, 2023
In 2017, the Brazilian State of Amapá registered the first occurrence of visceral leishmaniosis (VL) in 17 dogs in the outskirts of the capital, Macapá.
Pessoa LMB, Pinto EHC, Chaves TES, Rabelo GDS, Brito AL, Zanini VM, Nunes MCL, Viana LA.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Phlebotominae) diversity in the foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Surxondaryo Region of Uzbekistan: 50 years on. [PDF]

Parasitol Res
In Uzbekistan, the number of reported leishmaniasis cases is rising at the alarming rate. In this work, we studied the phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Phlebotominae) diversity in the foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Surxondaryo Region of Uzbekistan
Usarov GX, Turitsin VS, Sattarova XG, Sádlová J, Mustanov JAU, Saura A, Yurchenko V.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

DNA barcoding of sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from the western Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
The subfamily Phlebotominae comprises important insects for public health. The use of complementary tools such as molecular taxonomy is necessary for interspecific delimitation and/or discovery of cryptic species.
Pinto IS, Rodrigues BL, de Araujo-Pereira T, Shimabukuro PHF, de Pita-Pereira D, Britto C, Brazil RP.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Genetic diversity and phylogeography of Phlebotomus argentipes (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae), using COI and ND4 mitochondrial gene sequences. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Background Phlebotomus argentipes complex is the primary vector for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a burgeoning health concern in contemporary Sri Lanka, where effective vector control is important for proper disease management.
Wedage WMM, Harischandra IN, Weerasena OVDSJ, De Silva BGDNK.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bartonella spp. in Phlebotominae Sand Flies, Brazil. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis
Bartonella spp. are opportunistic, vectorborne bacteria that can cause disease in both animals and humans. We investigated the molecular occurrence of Bartonella spp.
Lee DAB, Fernandes Shimabukuro PH, Brilhante AF, Cadina Arantes PV, Sanches GS, Franco EO, Machado RZ, Maggi RG, Breitschwerdt EB, André MR.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Online catalogue of the Coleção de Flebotomíneos (FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB), a biological collection of American sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) held at Fiocruz Minas, Brazil. [PDF]

GigaByte, 2022
The Coleção de Flebotomíneos (“Phlebotomine Collection”; FIOCRUZ/COLFLEB) held at Fiocruz Minas is a curated biological collection comprising approximately 80 000 individual specimens of 370 species of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae ...
Andrade-Filho JD, Reis AS, Monteiro CC, Shimabukuro PHF.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Efficient Convolutional Neural Network Model for the Taxonomy and Sex Identification of Three Phlebotomine Sandfly Species (Diptera, Psychodidae, and Phlebotominae). [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Simple Summary This study focuses on identifying the sex and species of sandflies, small insects that thrive in tropical regions and are known to spread diseases such as leishmaniasis and bartonellosis.
Fraiwan M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

New status of Bichromomyia subspecies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) based on molecular taxonomy. [PDF]

J Med Entomol
The sand fly of the genus Bichromomyia (Galati, 1995) includes 3 subspecies considered vectors of Leishmania, which share high morphological similarity.
Lozano-Sardaneta YN, Huerta H, Marquez-López Y, Contreras-Ramos A.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Ecological Aspects of the Phlebotominae Fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) among Forest Fragments and Built Areas in an Endemic Area of American Visceral Leishmaniasis in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. [PDF]

Insects, 2022
Simple Summary Sand flies are small dipterans of medical importance, as some species are vectors of American visceral leishmaniasis disease (AVL). To determine whether the community of these vectors in forest areas and built areas are influenced by ...
Silva BQD, Afonso MMDS, Freire LJM, Santana ALF, Pereira-Colavite A, Rangel EF.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources