| Literature DB >> 17876457 |
Girley Francisco Machado de Assis1, Bernardino Vaz de Mello Azeredo, Ana Laura Carbajal de la Fuente, Liléia Diotaiuti, Marta de Lana.
Abstract
Impact of the vector control program was evaluated eight years after implantation of epidemiological surveillance for Chagas disease in Berilo, a municipality in the Jequitinhonha Valley of the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. In all 5,242 domiciliary units (96% of the total) were inspected and 10 found to be infested by the triatomine bug Triatoma pseudomaculata. Triatomines were found associated with bats inside one house and in the peridomiciles of the other nine. None of the 111 Triatoma pseudomaculata captured was infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. Noireau et al traps were installed in (n=8) and around (n=100) the infested house but no Trypanpsoma cruzi-infected triatomines were found. None bat, opossums (Didelphis albiventris) and rat captured in the peridomicile were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi although 24% of the inhabitants of the house infested by Triatoma pseudomaculata were seropositive for the parasite, based on ELISA, IHA and IIF.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17876457 DOI： 10.1590/s0037-86822007000400003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rev Soc Bras Med Trop ISSN： 0037-8682 Impact factor: 1.581