Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:40:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Triatoma is the most diversified and one of the most important genera from an epidemiolog-ical perspec...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:41:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-07-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Approximately 150,000 people are living with Chagas disease in Paraguay. Although the country has been since 2008 considered as one of the countries that succeeded in interrupted the vector transmission of Chagas by Triatoma infestans in hou...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:46:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-09-07; Triatoma sordida is an endemic Chagas disease vector in South America, distributed in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Chromosomal, molecular, isoenzymatic, and cuticular hydrocarbon pattern studies indicate cryptic speciation in T. sordida. Recently, T. rosai was described from specimens from Ar...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:35:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-12-01; Background: Triatoma sordida is one of the main Chagas disease vectors in Brazil. In addition to Brazil, this species has already been reported in Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is hypothesized that the insects currently identified as T. sordida are a species subcomplex formed by three cy...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:36:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-11-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Triatoma petrocchiae is a species morphologically similar to T. b. brasiliensis (which resulted in a s...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:29:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Cavernicola pilosa Barber, 1937 is a wild triatomine species that generally lives in caves but has been found invading dwellings. It feeds mostly on bat blood. This ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:30:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-12-01; Background: Meccus' taxonomy has been quite complex since the first species of this genus was described by Burmeister in 1835 as Conorhinus phyllosoma. In 1859 the species was transferred to the genus Meccus and in 1930 to Triatoma. However, in the twentieth century, the Meccus genus was revalidated (al...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:30:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-12-01; Background: The tribe Rhodniini is a monophyletic group composed of 24 species grouped into two genera: Rhodnius and Psammolestes. The genus Psammolestes includes only three species, namely P. coreodes, P. tertius and P. arthuri. Natural hybridization events have been reported for the Rhodniini tribe (f...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T05:29:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-06-10; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); The subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) comprises hematophagous insects that are vectors of Chagas disease; including species assigned to the genera Triato...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:07:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-12-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Chagas disease is the most prevalent neglected tropical disease in the Americas and makes an important contribution to morbidity and mortality rates in countries where it is endemic since 30 to 40% of patients develop cardiac diseases, gastr...