Analysis of sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Barra do Garças, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, and the influence of environmental variables on the vector density of Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912)

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Mirian Francisca Martins Queiroz, Jane Ramos Varjão, Sinara Cristina de Moraes, Gladys Elena Salcedo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012
• Subjects: Flebotomíneos; Leishmanioses; Séries temporais; Lutzomyia longipalpis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Barra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822012000300007; https://doaj.org/article/a1a1dd21cd6f44f28c57d0ea51213c5f

INTRODUCTION: Leishmaniasis is an infectious and parasitic zoonotic, non-contagious, vector-borne disease caused by protozoa of the genus Leishmania. In Brazil, the major vector of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi (Cunha & Chagas, 1934) is Lutzomyia longipalpis. Barra do Garças, State of...