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Dispersal of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a colombian focus of leishmania (Viannia) brasiliensis

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992
Dispersal of five species of phlebotomine sand flies was studied in a coffee plantation near Arboledas, Colombia by mark-release-recapture studies using fluorescent powders. The estimated recapture rate for males of Lutzomyia shannoni marked and released
Bruce Alexander, David G. Young
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Attraction of phlebotomine sandflies to volatiles from skin odors of individuals residing in an endemic area of tegumentary leishmaniasis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Many studies have investigated what could attract insects of medical importance and a crucial role has lately been attributed to human skin odors.
Diva da Silva Tavares, Vanessa Riesz Salgado, José Carlos Miranda, Paulo R R Mesquita, Frederico de Medeiros Rodrigues, Manoel Barral-Netto, Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade, Aldina Barral   +7 more
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List of morphological characteristics for 27 phlebotomine sand fly species.

, 2023
List of morphological characteristics for 27 phlebotomine sand fly species.
Jesús A. Díaz-Cruz (16469351), Ingeborg Becker (35763), Vicente Viveros-Santos (16469354), Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal (460908), Pedro C. Mis-Ávila (16469360), Jorge A. Torres-Monzón (16469366), Víctor Sánchez-Cordero (254589), Carlos F. Marina (16469357), Herón Huerta (3606173), Maribel Martínez-Burgos (16469363), Yokomi N. Lozano-Sardaneta (16469348)   +10 more
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Diversity of sandflies (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) captured in sandstone caves from Central Amazonia, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011
In the present paper we describe the diversity of phlebotomine sandflies collected in three sandstone caves in the municipality of Presidente Figueiredo, state of Amazonas, Brazil. The phlebotomines were captured during 2006 with CDC light traps.
Veracilda Ribeiro Alves, Rui Alves de Freitas, Francisco Lima Santos, Toby Vincent Barrett   +3 more
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Comparison of the phlebotomine (Diptera: Psychodidae) fauna of urban, transitional, and wild areas in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Phlebotomines are directly related to the study of leishmaniases, and so the study of their distribution plays an important role in the epidemiology of these diseases.
Cristiani de Castilho Sanguinette, Danyele Franca da Silva, Rodolfo German Antonelli Vidal Stumpp, Felipe Dutra Rego, Gabriel Barbosa Tonelli, Aline Tanure, Célia Maria Ferreira Gontijo, José Dilermando Andrade Filho   +7 more
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Chicken blood provides a suitable meal for the sand fly Lutzomyia longipalpis and does not inhibit Leishmania development in the gut [PDF]

, 2010
Background The aim of this study was to address the role of chickens as bloodmeal sources for female Lutzomyia longipalpis and to test whether chicken blood is harmful to Leishmania parasite development within the sand flies.
Nascimento, Alexandre, Dilger, Erin, Cavalcante, Reginaldo R, Diaz-Albiter, Hector M, Alexander, Bruce, Dillon, Rod J, Sant'anna, Mauricio Rv, Bates, Paul A   +7 more
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Spatial modelling of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani s.l. (Antunes & Coutinho, 1939) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) habitat suitability in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2008
Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) whitmani s.l.is the main vector of cutaneous leishmaniasis in state of Mato Grosso, but little is known about environmental determinants of its spatial distribution on a regional scale.
Peter Zeilhofer, Olga Patrícia Kummer, Emerson Soares dos Santos, Ana Lúcia Maria Ribeiro, Nanci Akemi Missawa   +4 more
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Notes on Phlebotomine sand flies of Michoacán, Mexico, with a key [PDF]

, 2016
Four species of phlebotomine sand flies were collected in the Municipality of Sahuayo, on the High Plateau of Michoacán, representing the first records of phlebotomine sand flies in this region.
Luis Arturo Ibarra Juárez, Ibarra Juárez, Luis Arturo, Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal, Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio   +3 more
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Ecology of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae)in a focus of Leishmania (Viannia) brasiliensis in northeastern Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992
The phlebotomine sand fly fauna of two coffee plantations in a Leishmania-endemic area of Norte de Santander, Colombia was studied. Regular insect collections using a variety of methods were made for three and a half years.
Bruce Alexander, Cristina Ferro, David G. Young, Alberto Morales, Robert B. Tesh   +4 more
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First report of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Kansas and Missouri, and a PCR method to distinguish Lutzomyia shannoni from Lutzomyia vexator [PDF]

, 2012
Citation: Weng, Ju-Lin, Samantha L. Young, David M. Gordon, David Claborn, Christine Petersen, and Marcelo Ramalho-Ortigao. 2012. “First Report of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Kansas and Missouri, and a PCR Method to Distinguish ...
Ramalho-Ortigão, Marcelo, Petersen, Christine, Weng, Ju-Lin, Claborn, David, Young, Samatha L., Gordon, David M.   +5 more
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