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Background The persistence of Triatoma infestans and the continuous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Inter-Andean Valleys and in the Gran Chaco of Bolivia are of great significance.
Marinely Bustamante Gomez +6 more
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Background Chemical control with pyrethroid insecticides has been effective in reducing endemic areas of distribution of Triatoma infestans in the Southern Cone, as well as Bolivia; this had considerably reduced the infestation of households in a large ...
Jorge Espinoza Echeverria +5 more
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Infestation of Palm Trees by Triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in the State of Bahia, Brazil
Palm trees play important roles as breeding and foraging habitats for sylvatic triatomines, vectors of Chagas disease. The occurrence of triatomines in peridomestic palm trees may increase the risk of invasion in households and should therefore be ...
Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves +2 more
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Apresentam-se as informações obtidas no inquérito triatomíneo levado a efeito na região central do Brasil. As características biogeográficas incluem a existência de áreas abertas dos cerrados e amplas faixas transicionais com outras feições paisagísticas.
Oswaldo Paulo Forattini +3 more
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CARRAPATICIDAS E INSETICIDAS NO CONTROLE QUÍMICO DE TRIATOMÍNEOS
Diversos trabalhos foram realizados ao longo da historia do Brasil com o intuito de se controlar e erradicar os bichos barbeiros do ambiente habitado por seres humanos, incluindo a realizacao de controle quimico com hexaclorociclohexanos.
Willian Marinho Dourado Coelho +2 more
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Background Rhodnius montenegrensis (Triatominae), a potential vector of Chagas disease, was described after R. robustus-like bugs from southwestern Amazonia. Mitochondrial cytb sequence near-identity with sympatric R. robustus (genotype II) raised doubts
Raíssa N. Brito +5 more
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Vigilância epidemiológica da doença de Chagas no estado de São Paulo no período de 2010 a 2012
OBJETIVO: descrever os indicadores da vigilância epidemiológica da doença de Chagas no estado de São Paulo, Brasil. MÉTODOS: foi realizado estudo descritivo dos indicadores entomológicos e epidemiológicos obtidos a partir das atividades desenvolvidas ...
Rubens Antonio da Silva +2 more
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INTRODUCTION: from an epidemiological point of view, more than 120 species of triatomine (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) are known. The occurrence and positivity for Trypanosoma cruzi in triatomines in 16 municipalities of the Triângulo Mineiro and Alto ...
Márcia Beatriz Cardoso de Paula +7 more
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Background DNA barcoding assumes that a biological entity is completely separated from its closest relatives by a barcoding gap, which means that intraspecific genetic distance (from COI sequences) should never be greater than interspecific distances. We
Silvia Andrade Justi +2 more
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