Aspectos da ecologia e do comportamento de flebotomíneos em área endêmica de leishmaniose visceral, Minas Gerais

作者：Ricardo Andrade Barata, João Carlos França-Silva, Wilson Mayrink, Jaime Costa Silva, Áluízio Prata, Elias Seixas Lorosa, Jaqueline Araújo Fiúza, Caroline Macedo Gonçalves, Kênia Maria de Paula, Edelberto Santos Dias · 发表于：Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 年份：2005 · DOI：10.1590/s0037-86822005000500012 · 被引用次数：96 · 研究领域：Research on Leishmaniasis Studies

Studies on the behavioral and feeding habits of some species of phlebotominae sand flies have contributed to the comprehension of the epidemiology of leishmaniasis. In the present work, systematic captures were performed monthly in the municipality of Porteirinha (MG) using 28 light traps (CDC) from January to December 2002. Fourteen different species of phlebotomine were captured in a total of 1,408 specimens. The highest percentage of individuals (53.3%) was collected in the peridomicile against 46.7% in the intradomicile. Lutzomyia longipalpis was the predominant species in that region. The blood feeding of 38 females of this species from the field was analyzed by precipitin reaction. The results indicated that Lutzomyia longipalpis is an opportunist (65.1%) species that feeds on a wide variety of vertebrates in nature.