Triatomines in dwellings and outbuildings in an endemic area of Chagas disease in northeastern Brazil

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Antonio Fernando Rodrigues Lima, Veronica de Lourdes Sierpe Jeraldo, Maxwell Souza Silveira, Rubens Riscala Madi, Thiago Bicudo Krempel Santana, Cláudia Moura de Melo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012
• Subjects: Doença de Chagas; Panstrongylus megistus; Área endemica; Sergipe; Brasil; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Boa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822012000600009; https://doaj.org/article/7906289f30ab46e0878dffe24e1270e2

INTRODUCTION: The present study identified the triatomines collected in intra and peri-domestic environments, observed the occurrence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in triatomines and correlated this information with housing conditions and the fauna associated with the rural areas of the City of Ita...