Sand Flies
Exposure to Leishmania spp. and sand flies in domestic animals in northwestern Ethiopia
... Fig. 3 Specificity of the anti-sand fly saliva IgG antibody response. The reactivity of Phlebotomus orientalis salivary gland homogenates (SGH) with sera from mice (a) and dogs (b) repeatedly exposed to a single ...
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Effects of timber harvest on phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a production forest: abundance of species on tree trunks and prevalence of trypanosomatids
... collected sand flies were constants in the three studied areas, reinforcing the hy- pothesis of an intrinsic relationship between the sand fly fauna and the microenvironment of tree ...the ...
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Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
... Martins et al (1978) mentioned the presence of Lu. spinosa (Floch & Abonnenc) in some municipalities of Minas Gerais. According to Young & Duncan (1994), Lu. spinosa is in part a synonym of Lu. damascenoi ...
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Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the municipality of Várzea Grande: an area of transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil
... ceptible hosts and phlebotomine vectors. Dogs are re- garded as infective for phlebotomine vectors even when they are asymptomatic. In symptomatic dogs, the expo- sure to cutaneous infections and hair loss enable con- ...
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Entomological survey of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a focus of visceral leishmaniasis in central Iran
... collection: Sand flies were collected bi- weekly using sticky paper traps, CDC light traps and aspirators from outdoors (cow shelters, dog shelters and holes in rocks and caves) as well as indoors (stable ...
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A Cross-Sectional Survey of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Related to Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Sand Flies in Punjab, Pakistan.
... Understanding local knowledge of the communities with respect to health issues can be an important tool, particularly in areas like Pakistan where the quality of biomedical healthcare is lacking [9]. Therefore, ...
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Survey of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in an environmentally protected area in Brazil.
... female sand flies were grouped according to species, collection date and collection site, with 2 to 20 individual sand flies in each pool (mean = ...
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Relationships of New World Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) Based on Fossil Evidence
... If the great glaciations really were responsible for the extinction of many species or their displacement to the Tropics, one might expect P. shannoni to have migrated to the Nearctic within the last 10,000 years, at ...
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Comparison of LAMP and PCR for molecular mass screening of sand flies for Leishmania martiniquensis infection
... of sand flies from a new autochthonous leishmaniasis affected area - The sen- sitivity and specificity results in a simulation model highlighted the potential of PCR-mkDNA to detect ...of sand ...
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External Morphology of Sensory Structures of Fourth Instar Larvae of Neotropical Species of Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) under Scanning Electron Microscopy
... Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are insects of medical and veterinary importance, as they can transmit leishmaniases, bartonelloses and ...distinguish sand fly species are those of the ...
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Sand flies of Nicaragua: a checklist and reports of new collections
... The literature on Latin American and Caribbean phle- botomines through 1993 was catalogued by Young and Duncan (1994). Based on published reports and their ex- amination of additional specimens, they concluded that 20 ...
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Lutzomyia Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Middle and Lower Putumayo Department, Colombia, with New Records to the Country
... 10 sand flies species that are considered vectors of leishmaniasis (Young & Arias 1992), contribute to the transmission of the disease in ...these sand flies, ...
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Bionomics of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the province of Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia
... of sand flies in Al-Baha province, Saudi ...the sand fly vectors associated with CL-endemic areas of Al- Baha ...the sand flies in the ...of sand flies is a feature of ...
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Phlebotomine sand flies characterization in Sobral’s neighborhoods, State of Ceará
... Abstract. Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) are insects of great importance to public health because they are transmitters of leishmaniasis. This aimed to characterize the sandflies in ...
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Lutzomyia sand flies in the subgenus Evandromyia Mangabeira
... Similar to species in the Series infraspinosa except for the tollowing: Eyes very small; male genitalia with a trifurcate paramere; aedeagus with a short or long ventroiat[r] ...
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Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a Cerrado Area of the Maranhão State, Brazil
... maintaining sand fl y populations has been discussed (Alexander et al 2002), possibly indicating that these artifi cial shelters may be an important reservoir of visceral leishmaniasis focus in human ...capturing ...
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Alfredo CR Azevedo+ , Nataly A Souza, Cláudio RV Meneses, Wagner A Costa, Simone M Costa, José B Lima, Elizabeth F Rangel
... on sand flies in forest areas and/or in areas where there is leishmaniasis transmission (Arias & Freitas 1982, Aguiar et ...the sand fly fauna in a given ...
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REPOSITORIO INSTITUCIONAL DA UFOP: A vaccine therapy for canine visceral leishmaniasis promoted significant improvement of clinical and immune status with reduction in parasite burden.
... Parasite load was evaluated using quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) in bone marrow, skin, and sand flies before (T0) and 90 days (T90) after treatment. Total DNA extraction of the samples was carried out ...
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Establishment and Characterization of a New Continuous Cell Line from Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) and its Susceptibility to Infections with Arboviruses and Leishmania chagasi
... the sand-fly is composed of different cell popula- tions, while the established cell line generally con- tains a single cell ...phlebotomie sand flies (Changuinola and Vesicu- lar Stomatitis), and ...
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Distribution of the assemblage of phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) along an environmental gradient
... higher, if the 96 individuals of Brumptomyia could be identified to the species level. To the best of our knowledge, only the occurrence of L. intermedia had been reported in the study area (Rangel et al. 1984). Yet, the ...
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