PHLEBOTOMINE FAUNA (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) IN AN AREA OF FISHING TOURISM IN CENTRAL-WESTERN BRAZIL

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Andreia Fernandes Brilhante¹  Maria Elizabeth Moraes Cavalheiros Dorval¹  Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati¹  Hilda Carlos Da Rocha¹  Geucira Cristaldo¹  Vânia Lúcia Brandão Nunes¹ 

关键词: Sandflies;    Leishmaniasis;    Natural infection;    Animal’s shelters;    Vectors;    Ecotourism;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652015000300009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this study was to identify behavioral aspects of the sandfly fauna of a fishing tourism area in the municipality of Bonito (MS). Monthly captures were undertaken from December 2009 to November 2010, using automatic CDC type light traps, from 18h00 to 06h00, in a forested area, a savannah area, peridomiciles and animal shelters near peridomiciliary areas. Nyssomyia whitmani was the most frequent out of a total of 6,699 specimens collected, belonging to 16 species, followed by Psathyromyia bigeniculata and Lutzomyia longipalpis, found in all the environments investigated, though in their greatest numbers in the animal shelters. Ny. whitmani exhibited its highest frequencies during the dry months, coincident with the fishing season, when the risk of transmission of cutaneous leishmaniasis for tourists and inhabitants increases. Noteworthy was the finding of two species naturally infected by flagellates: Ny. whitmani and Pa. bigeniculata. The local population and visiting tourists should be warned of the threat posed by leishmaniasis and the health authorities alerted to the need for adopting environmental sanitary measures, especially regarding such animal shelters as they seem to provide favorable conditions to the proliferation, maintenance and breeding opportunities of phlebotomines.

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