SURVEY OF SANDFLY FAUNA (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) IN UBERLÂNDIA, MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL, 2003-2004

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Márcia Beatriz Cardoso De Paula¹  Amaral Alves De Souza¹  Alessandro Ambrósio Dos Reis¹  Jean Ezequiel Limongi¹  Adalberto De Albuquerque Pajuaba Neto¹  Elisângela De Azevedo Silva Rodrigues¹ 

关键词: Leishmaniasis;    Ecology;    Insect vectors;    Epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652013000200004

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We analyzed the sandflies around houses and domestic animal shelters located in residences close to forests in localities on the banks of the Araguari River, Uberlândia, MG, from February 2003 to November 2004. The phlebotomines were captured in the peridomiciliary area, where Shannon traps were utilized in the peridomicile and CDC traps in animal shelters. 2,783 specimens of sandflies were captured, 2,140 females (76.9%) and 643 males (23.1%), distributed between 17 species. The most abundant species was Nyssomyia neivai (88.1%), followed by Nyssomyia whitmani (3.1%). The presence of Lutzomyia longipalpis was also confirmed, it is the main vector of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi which causes visceral leishmaniasis. The presence of species involved in the transmission of leishmaniases in the municipality of Uberlândia is cause for concern. The presence of L. longipalpis indicates that its urbanization may not have been aleatory and instead occurred through the destruction of wild ecotopes. More studies of their occupation in anthropic environments need to be made.

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