Infestation of Mauritia flexuosa palms by triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli in the Brazilian savanna

Acta Tropica

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-111

  Gurgel Gonçalves, Rodrigo ^a   Cura, Carolina ^b   Schijman, Alejandro G ^b   Cuba, César A Cuba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brazilian savanna; Mauritia flexuosa; Triatomines; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INSECT; SAVANNA; TREE;

ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MAURITIA FLEXUOSA; MICROTRIATOMA BORBAI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSAMMOLESTES TERTIUS; RHODNIUS NEGLECTUS; SAVANNA; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; BRAZIL; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

BRAZIL; FEDERAL DISTRICT [BRAZIL]; MINAS GERAIS;

HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MAURITIA FLEXUOSA; PSAMMOLESTES TERTIUS; REDUVIIDAE; RHODNIUS NEGLECTUS; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 84855952918     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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