Phlebotomine fauna in a rural area of the Brazilian Pantanal

Revista de Saúde Pública

Lourdislene Costa Braga-miranda²  Marcos Miranda²  Eunice A Bianchi Galati¹ 

[1] ,Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa AgropecuáriaCorumbá MS ,Brasil

关键词: Phlebotominae;    Psychodidae;    Insect vectors;    Ecology vectors;    Rural population;    Phlebotominae;    Psychodidae;    Insetos vetores;    Ecologia de vetores;    População rural;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-89102006000200021

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The aim of the study was to identify among the phlebotomine fauna potential leishmaniasis vectors. The study was carried out in Corumbá county, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Mid-West Brazil (18º59'S, 56º39'W). Sand fly captures were undertaken fortnightly with automatic light traps at 11 sites in forested environments and anthropic areas from April 2001 to July 2003. A total of only 41 specimens were captured. Thirty-one percent of the specimens were captured in forests and 68.3% in anthropic areas. The predominance of non-anthropophilic groups and the low density of N. whitmani, a known cutaneous leishmaniasis vector, does not seem to indicate any actual risk of the transmission of this disease in the study area.

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