Intrusive versus domiciliated triatomines and the challenge of adapting vector control practices against Chagas disease

E Waleckx, S Gourbière, E Dumonteil - Memórias do Instituto …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Chagas disease prevention remains mostly based on triatomine vector control to reduce or
eliminate house infestation with these bugs. The level of adaptation of triatomines to human …

Cryptic speciation in the Triatoma sordida subcomplex (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) revealed by chromosomal markers

F Panzera, S Pita, J Nattero, Y Panzera, C Galvão… - Parasites & …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Chagas disease vectors (Hemiptera-Reduviidae) comprise more than
140 blood-sucking insect species of the Triatominae subfamily. The largest genus is …

Geometric morphometrics and ecological niche modelling for delimitation of near‐sibling triatomine species

R Gurgel‐Gonçalves, JBC Ferreira… - Medical and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying morphologically similar triatomine species is key to Chagas' disease vector
control and surveillance, but remains challenging when only qualitative phenotypic data are …

[HTML][HTML] Insects found in birds' nests from Argentina. Part I: a bibliographical review, with taxonomical corrections, comments and a hypothetical mechanism of …

P Turienzo, O Di Iorio - Zootaxa, 2007 - mapress.com
A bibliographical review of the insects found in birds' nests from Argentina is herein
presented. The bird species are cited as they were originally recorded in the respective …

Invasion of rural houses by wild Triatominae in the arid Chaco

MJ Cavallo, I Amelotti, DE Gorla - Journal of Vector Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Triatomines are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas disease,
the main endemic disease affecting five to seven million people in Latin America. Besides …

Hosts and vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi discrete typing units in the Chagas disease endemic region of the Paraguayan Chaco

N Acosta, E Lopez, MD Lewis, MS Llewellyn, A Gomez… - Parasitology, 2017 - cambridge.org
Active Trypanosoma cruzi transmission persists in the Gran Chaco region, which is
considered hyperendemic for Chagas disease. Understanding domestic and sylvatic …

Impacts of residual insecticide spraying on the abundance and habitat occupancy of Triatoma sordida and co-occurrence with Triatoma infestans: A three-year follow …

LI Rodríguez-Planes, MS Gaspe, GF Enriquez… - Acta tropica, 2020 - Elsevier
Triatoma infestans, the main vector in the Gran Chaco region, may competitively displace
other sympatric species such as Triatoma sordida. We conducted a three-year longitudinal …

The PCR-based detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in the faeces of Triatoma infestans fed on patients with chronic American trypanosomiasis gives higher sensitivity …

I Zulantay, W Apt, LC Gil, C Rocha… - Annals of Tropical …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
In the xenodiagnosis (XD) of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), Trypanosoma
cruzi in the triatomine bugs fed on the patient can now be detected using PCR (XD-PCR) as …

Habitat-Specific Occupancy and a Metapopulation Model of Triatoma sordida (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a Secondary Vector of Chagas Disease, in Northeastern …

LI Rodríguez-Planes, MS Gaspe… - Journal of medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Triatoma sordida Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a secondary vector of Trypanosoma cruzi
Chagas (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae), occasionally colonizes human sleeping …

Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

KJ Reinhard, A Araújo - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the endemic region of a disease is part of developing a concept of the
disease's natural history and its threat to human health in both ancient and modern times …