Jaburetox: update on a urease-derived peptide by Arlete Beatriz Becker-Ritt, Camila Saretta Portugal, Célia Regina Carlini

“…JBTX was able to cause mortality of Aedes aegypti larvae in a feeding assay whereas in a dose as low as of 0.1 μg it provoked death of Triatoma infestans bugs. JBTX (10−5–10−6 M) inhibits the growth of E. coli, P. aeruginosa and B. cereus after 24 h incubation. …”
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Pesquisa da proteína 24 do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) nas fezes de triatomíneos alimentados em pacientes com aids by Silmara Fuso Nuzzo, Vicente Amato Neto, Lúcia Maria Almeida Braz, Maria de Fátima Santos Silva, Meire Lúcia de Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Lopes Castilho, Silvino Alves de Carvalho

“…MÉTODO: Os triatomíneos (Triatoma infestans) alimentaram-se com sangue de 23 pacientes acometidos de AIDS e nos quais estava presente a p24. …”
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Controle da transmissão transfusional da doença de Chagas na Iniciativa do Cone Sul by João Carlos Pinto Dias, Christopher John Schofield

“…Integrando os objetivos principais da iniciativa dos 6 Países do Cone Sul para a eliminação da doença de Chagas, a partir de 1991, foram intensificadas as ações de controle das atividades hemoterápicas, em paralelo com o combate intensivo ao Triatoma infestans, principal vetor da doença da Região. …”
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Sobre a domiciliaçao dos triatomineos by Mário B. Aragão

“…O estudo englobou as seguintes espécies: Belminus peruvianus, Panstrongylus geniculatus, Panstrongilus herreri, Panstrongylus megistus, Psammolestes tertius, Rhodnius neglectus, Rhodnius prolixus,Triatoma arthurneivai, Triatoma dimidiata,Triatoma infestans, Triatoma protracta, Triatoma rubrovaria e Triatoma sórdida. …”
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Estudo do comportamento de cepas de Trypanosoma cruzi após passagem em diferentes espécies de triatomíneos by Juracy B. Magalhães, Sonia G. Andrade

“…Triatomíneos: Rhodnius prolixus, Panstrongylus megistus e Triatoma infestans. Ninfas do 4o estágio foram alimentadas em camundongos infectados com as respectivas cepas e obtidos os inóculos (icft formas metacíclinas) para infecção de camundongos de 8 a 10 g. …”
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Experimental studies on Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi strains isolated from man, from animals and from triatomine bugs in Brazil by W. B. Petana, J. R. Coura

“…<br>Nove cepas de T. cruzi, 5 isoladas do homem, 2 isoladas do cão e 2 outras isoladas de Triatoma infestans domiciliados, foram estudadas do ponto de vista morfólógico e de sua virulência e patogenicidade para o camundongo, em um período de observação de 8 a 12 meses. …”
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Tentativas de transmissão da lepra ao homem, por meio de Triatomídeos infectados em doentes lepromatosos: (nota prévia) Attempts to transmit Leprosy to man by means of Triatomidae... by H. C. de Souza-Araújo, José Mariano, Gustavo M. de Oliveira Castro

“…More than one hundred Triatomidae (Triatoma infestans and Panstrongylus megistus) bred in the Institute Oswaldo Cruz and fed in normal pigeons until convenient growth were put on lepromatous lesions, which they sucked many times, and them after one or more days they were put to be fed on selected regions of the skin of four negativated cases of leprosy. …”
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Retracing micro-epidemics of Chagas disease using epicenter regression. by Michael Z Levy, Dylan S Small, Daril A Vilhena, Natalie M Bowman, Vivian Kawai, Juan G Cornejo del Carpio, Eleazar Cordova-Benzaquen, Robert H Gilman, Caryn Bern, Joshua B Plotkin

“…We show that in a community of Arequipa, transmission of T. cruzi by the insect vector Triatoma infestans occurred as a series of focal micro-epidemics, the oldest of which began only around 20 years ago. …”
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Epicuticular lipids induce aggregation in Chagas disease vectors by Juárez M Patricia, Mijailovsky Sergio J, Girotti Juan R, Figueiras Alicia

“…The epicuticular lipids of <it>Triatoma infestans </it>include a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, free and esterified fatty acids, alcohols, and sterols.…”
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Culturas de bacilos ácido-álcool resistentes isolados de hematófagos infectados em leprosos: evidências de se tratar do bacilo de Hansen Isolation and cultures of acid-fast bacilli... by H. C. de Souza-Araújo

“…The A. having found specimens of two species of Triatomidae (Triatoma infestans and Panstrongylus megistus) naturally infected with HANSEN bacillus in huts habited by lepers in the State of Minas Gerais (Dec. 1942), started a series of experiments, using larvae and nymphs of T. infestans bred in laboratory at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, to infect in active cases of leprosy, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, could obtain two new samples of cultures of acid-fast bacilli (Ns. 6 and 7 of his set). …”
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Metabolic signatures of triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi unveiled by metabolomics. by Luis Caetano M Antunes, Jun Han, Jingxi Pan, Carlos J C Moreira, Patrícia Azambuja, Christoph H Borchers, Nicolas Carels

“…We performed Direct Infusion Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry on fecal samples of three triatomine species (Rhodnius prolixus, Triatoma infestans, Panstrongylus megistus) fed with rabbit blood. …”
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Os novos desafios e perspectivas futuras do controle by Antônio Carlos Silveira

“…A transmissão vetorial domiciliar por Triatoma infestans foi interrompida, e controlada em níveis importantes por espécies nativas de vetor. …”
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Síntese dos resultados dos inquéritos nacionais by Afonso Dinis Costa Passos, Antônio Carlos Silveira

“…Verificou-se uma maior proporção de infectados nas áreas correspondentes àquela de distribuição de Triatoma infestans, a espécie reconhecidamente com maior capacidade vetorial entre as cinco identificadas como as mais importantes no Brasil à época. …”
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Entomological aspects of Chagas' disease transmission in the domestic habitat, Argentina by SS Catalá, LB Crocco, A Muñoz, G Morales, I Paulone, E Giraldez, C Candioti, C Ripol

“…Of all collected Triatoma infestans, 44% had had human blood meals whereas 27% had had dogs or chickens blood meals. …”
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Modelling geospatial distributions of the triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in Latin America. by Andreas Bender, Andre Python, Steve W Lindsay, Nick Golding, Catherine L Moyes

“…The results for Rhodnius pictipes, Panstrongylus geniculatus, Triatoma dimidiata, Triatoma gerstaeckeri, and Triatoma infestans are presented in detail, including model predictions and uncertainty in these predictions, and the model validation results for each of the 30 species are presented in full. …”
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Correlação entre a positividade do xenodiagnóstico artificial e a quantidade de sangue e triatomíneos utilizados no exame, em pacientes chagásicos crônicos by Yara Bandeira Azevedo Franco, Ionizete Garcia da Silva, Anis Rassi, Alessandra Carla Rodrigues Galvão Rocha, Heloisa Helena Garcia da Silva, Gustavo Gabriel Rassi

“…Usou-se Dipetalogaster maximus, Triatoma infestans, Triatoma vitticeps e Rhodnius neglectus, nos estádios 1°, 3°, 3° e 4°, respectivamente. …”
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Entomological aspects of Chagas' disease transmission in the domestic habitat, Argentina by SS Catalá, LB Crocco, A Muñoz, G Morales, I Paulone, E Giraldez, C Candioti, C Ripol

“…Of all collected Triatoma infestans, 44% had had human blood meals whereas 27% had had dogs or chickens blood meals. …”
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Beating the odds: Sustained Chagas disease vector control in remote indigenous communities of the Argentine Chaco over a seven-year period. by M Sol Gaspe, Yael M Provecho, María P Fernández, Claudia V Vassena, Pablo L Santo Orihuela, Ricardo E Gürtler

“…BACKGROUND:Rapid reinfestation of insecticide-treated dwellings hamper the sustained elimination of Triatoma infestans, the main vector of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco region. …”
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Control of pyrethroid-resistant Chagas disease vectors with entomopathogenic fungi. by Nicolás Pedrini, Sergio J Mijailovsky, Juan R Girotti, Raúl Stariolo, Rubén M Cardozo, Alberto Gentile, M Patricia Juárez

“…BACKGROUND: Triatoma infestans-mediated transmission of Tripanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, remains as a major health issue in southern South America. …”
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Modelling geospatial distributions of the triatomine vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi in Latin America by Bender, A, Python, A, Lindsay, SW, Golding, N, Moyes, CL

“…The results for Rhodnius pictipes, Panstrongylus geniculatus, Triatoma dimidiata, Triatoma gerstaeckeri, and Triatoma infestans are presented in detail, including model predictions and (un)certainty in these predictions, and the model validation results for each of the 30 species are presented in full. …”