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Determination of blood meal sources of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera, Ceratopog...
Gusmão, Gaudino Marco Cantanhede; Lorosa, Elias Seixas; Brito, Gustavo Almeida; Moraes, Leandro Santos; Bastos, Vagner de Jesus CarneiroThe stomach contents of females from the genus Culicoides were studied to determine their blood food sources and the degree of relations established between these insects and their hosts. The specimens were captured by using CDC light traps within the period from March 2009 to February 2010, in two rural towns in the island of São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. A total of 930 engorged females were captured, belonging ...
Emerging Chagas Disease : trophic network and cycle of transmission of Trypanos...
Teixeira, Antonio Raimundo Lima Cruz; Monteiro, Pedro Sadi; Rebêlo, José Manuel Macário; Argañaraz, Enrique Roberto; Vieira, DanielaABSTRACT; A trophic network involving molds, invertebrates, and vertebrates, ancestrally adapted to the palm tree (Attalaea phalerata) microhabitat, maintains enzootic Trypanosoma cruzi infections in the Amazonian county Paço do Lumiar, state of Maranhão, Brazil. We assessed seropositivity for T. cruzi infections in the human population of the county, searched in palm trees for the triatomines that harbor these...