Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Sep 1986)

Flebótomos de Vargem Grande, foco de leishmaniose tegumentar no Estado do Rio de Janeiro Phlebotomus of Vargem Grande, focus of tegumentary leishmaniasis in the State of Rio de Janeiro

  • Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel,
  • Nataly A. Souza,
  • Eduardo D. Wermelinger,
  • Alfredo Carlos R. Azevedo,
  • André F. Barbosa,
  • Claudia A. Andrade

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761986000300013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 81, no. 3
pp. 347 – 349

Abstract

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Realizamos durante um ano completo coletas sistemáticas de flebótomos em Vargem Grande, onde recentemente encontráramos Lutzomyia intermedia naturalmente infectada por Leishmania braziliensis. Capturamos flebótomos pertencentes a doze espécies. Tanto dentro de casa quanto no peridomicílio, as capturas em isca humana e com armadilha luminosa, revelaram a grande predominância de L. intermedia seguida de L. migonei. Na plantação predominou L. migonei. Nas coletas simultâneas em homem e cão, L. intermedia foi mais freqüente no primeiro e L. migonei no segundo.In Vargem Grande, an endemic area of cutaneous leishmaniasis in State of Rio de Janeiro, where Lutzomyia intermedia had been found infected with Leishmania braziliensis, we performed a series of caputes of sandflies to increase the knowledge on their behaviour. The following species were found among 8,671 sandflies collected: L. intermedia, L. migonei, L. longipalpis, L. lanei, L. fischeri, L. firmatoi, L. monticola, L schreiberi, L. whitmani, L. pelloni, L. barrettpi e L. (Pi) sp. inside houses and outdoors close to the houses, on human bait and in light traps, the predominant species was L. intermedia, followed by L. migonei, both being more numerous between 9 and 11 p.m. than from 6 to 8 p.m. In a plantation, L. migonei was predominant. In simultaneous captures on man and dog as baits, L. intermedia was more frequent on the former, L. migonei on the latter.

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