Abstract
Adult specimens of Triatoma vitticeps are frequently captured by residents in rural areas of the State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. With aim of determining the natural infection rate of this species, we examined the excrement of 116 wild specimens, captured in 27 municipal districts of the state, after blood meal in chicken and spontaneous excretion. Of these, 100 (86.2%) were infected with flagellates morphologically similar to Trypanosoma cruzi. Our results showed natural infection rates of Tritoma vitticeps superior to previous studies. The low incidence of Chagas disease in the state is probably due to late excretion in this vector, given that works of alimentary specificity demonstrated the presence of Tritoma vitticeps in intradomiciliary and frequent contact with humans. The high rate of natural infection observed reinforces the need for sustained entomologic surveillance on this triatomine.
References
Apr 1, 1986·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·P A Sessa, V R Carias
Jul 1, 1984·Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo·J K KloetzelE S Umezawa
Sep 6, 2000·Revista de saúde pública·T C GonçalvesR A Cunha
Dec 19, 2002·Cadernos de saúde pública·Paulo Augusto SessaAloísio Falqueto
Jun 1, 1956·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·E DIAS
Feb 6, 2004·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·Elias Seixas LorosaJosé Jurberg
Apr 20, 2004·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·Alejandro CaraballoAlexis Rodríguez-Acosta
Sep 27, 2005·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·Claudiney Biral dos SantosAloísio Falqueto
Citations
May 23, 2012·PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases·Samanta Cristina das Chagas XavierAna Maria Jansen
May 14, 2009·Parasitology Research·S A O GomesJ R Santos-Mallet
Jan 9, 2015·BMC Infectious Diseases·Luiz Henrique Conde SangenisMárcio Neves Bóia
Jun 30, 2006·Autonomic Neuroscience : Basic & Clinical·Luiz Antônio Pertili Rodrigues de ResendeDalmo Correia
May 25, 2010·Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases·Rita de Cássia Moreira de SouzaDavid E Gorla
Jan 28, 2016·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·João Victor Leite DiasLiléia Diotaiuti
Oct 1, 2015·Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo·Luiz Henrique Conde SangenisAlejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno
May 28, 2014·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·Adriana dos SantosMarta de Lana
Oct 31, 2006·Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz·Claudiney Biral dos SantosAloísio Falqueto
Nov 28, 2017·PloS One·Maria Augusta DarioAna Maria Jansen
Apr 24, 2012·Journal of Tropical Medicine·Rodrigo Gurgel-GonçalvesA Townsend Peterson
Sep 2, 2016·Parasites & Vectors·Maria Augusta DarioAna Maria Jansen
Nov 22, 2018·Brazilian Journal of Biology = Revista Brasleira De Biologia·C Santos da SilvaJ Reis Dos Santos-Mallet
Nov 27, 2018·Parasite : Journal De La Société Française De Parasitologie·Maria Augusta DarioAloísio Falqueto
Feb 28, 2014·Journal of Parasitology Research·Claudiney Biral Dos SantosAloísio Falqueto
Apr 23, 2020·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·Theresa Cristina Cardoso da SilvaSandra Fagundes Moreira-Silva
Aug 31, 2017·Parasites & Vectors·Otacilio C MoreiraConstança Britto
Dec 19, 2020·Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical·Guilherme Sanches Corrêa-do-NascimentoGustavo Rocha Leite