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Flebotomineos (diptera: psychodiae) infectados naturalmente por tripanosomatídeos (kinetoplastida: trypanosomatidae) em fragmentos florestais urbanos em manaus – amazonas (brasil)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Silva, Thilina N. De Castellón, G. Eloy |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | The transmission of leishmaniasis desease, for the host vertebrata is by the bite of the phlebotomine sand flies vectors of the genus Lutzomyia (Diptera :Psychodidae) infected with the flagellate forms of the parasite.Sandfly collections were carried out from January 2002 to Abril 2009, at the tree trunk bases on which light traps of the “CDC modified”, type (CDC “miniature”- Hausherr Machine Works, New Jersey, EUA) that functioned as hand aspirators were placed, from 8:00 to 10:30 h, in the Forest patches surrounding the communities: Sao Joao, Cidade de Deus and Hileia and in the Forest patches within of the Federal University of the Amazonas Campus as well as the one at the Sokai Gakkai reserve. All the forementioned forest patches are sited within the Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil. The work carried out in the present research caught a total of 2.612 sandfly (Diptera:Psychodidae) females. Out of these total 40% or 1.202 specimens, were dissected, from that total 26 females presented natural infection by Tripanosomatidae. The infection rate recorded in those areas shows to be 2.02% (5/247) Cidade de Deus; 3.18% (12/377) Sao Joao; 1.27% (2/157) Hileia; 1.85% (7/379) UFAM and no positive specimen for flagellates was recorder at the Sokai Gakkai reserve. The presence of Lutzomyia umbratilis show risk of transmition of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in the |
| Starting Page | 121 |
| Ending Page | 129 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.24188/recia.v4.n1.2012.299 |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://revistas.unisucre.edu.co/index.php/recia/article/download/299/341 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.24188/recia.v4.n1.2012.299 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |