High levels of human infection with Trypanosoma cruzi associated with the domestic density of infected vectors and hosts in a rural area of northeastern Argentina [PDF]
Background: Insecticide spraying campaigns designed to suppress the principal vectors of the Chagas disease usually lack an active surveillance system that copes with house reinvasion.
Cardinal, Marta Victoria+5 more
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Fluralaner treatment of chickens kills the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus
Chickens treated with fluralaner, fenbendazole or ivermectin did not repel Culex quinquefasciatus from feeding. The mortality of Culex quinquefasciatus feeding on fluralaner‐treated chickens was significantly higher than that of those fed on control chickens at 3 and 7 days post‐treatment.
Koyle Knape+7 more
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Apresenta-se a distribuição geográfica de triatomíneos em Goiás e indicadores entomológicos no ambiente domiciliar: infestação domiciliar, densidade triatomínica domiciliar e infecção vetorial pelo Trypanosoma cruzi.
Antônio Wilson Soares de Oliveira+1 more
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Influye la alimentación sobre el dimorfismo sexual en Triatoma infestans (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) de hábitats naturales? [PDF]
Triatoma infestans es el principal vector del parásito que causa la enfermedadde Chagas en Sudamérica. Se sabe que T. infestans tiene diferentes patrones reproductivosy de desarrollo dependiendo de si se alimentan de aves o mamíferos.
Amelotti, Ivana+3 more
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Chromosome complement and meiosis in three species of the Neotropical bug genus Antiteuchus (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae, Discocephalinae) [PDF]
Orcein staining of spermatocytes was used to study the meiotic behavior of holocentric chromosomes in three member of the genus Antiteuchus (commonly known as stink bugs). We describe and illustrate the karyotype of Antiteuchus mixtus, A. sepulcralis and
de Souza, Maria José, Lanzone, Cecilia
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Triatoma infestans is the most important Chagas disease vector in South America. Two main evolutionary lineages, named Andean and non-Andean, have been recognized by geographical distribution, phenetic and genetic characteristics.
S. Pita+7 more
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Resistência do Triatoma brasiliensis ao jejum Resistence of Triatoma brasiliensis to fasting
Triatoma brasiliensis suporta prolongados períodos de jejum em condições de laboratório. O número médio de dias que os animais não alimentados e mantidos a 30oC e a 70-80% U.R.
Maria José Costa+1 more
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Canine Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the Bolivian Chaco [PDF]
A cross-sectional study on Trypanosoma cruzi was carried out in 2013 to evaluate the role of dogs as possible source of infection for humans in two rural communities of the highly endemic Bolivian Chaco (Bartolo, Chuquisaca Department, n = 57 dogs; and ...
Bartoloni, Alessandro+9 more
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Esta investigación tiene como objetivo identificar los triatominos que predominan en ambientes domésticos y extradomésticos de diferentes departamentos de la Provincia de Corrientes mediante muestreos llevados a cabo desde 1985 hasta 1995.
Miryam Pieri Damborsky+2 more
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High Trypanosoma spp. diversity is maintained by bats and triatomines in Espírito Santo state, Brazil [PDF]
The aim of this study was to reevaluate the ecology of an area in the Atlantic Forest, southeast Brazil, where Chagas disease (CD) has been found to occur.
Costa, Leonora Pires+10 more
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