%0 Journal Article
%T Natural infection of triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) by trypanosomatids in two different environments in the municipality of Ouro Preto do Oeste, State of Rond£¿nia, Brazil
%A Meneguetti
%A Dionatas Ulisses de Oliveira
%A Trevisan
%A Olzeno
%A Camargo
%A Lu¨ªs Marcelo Aranha
%A Rosa
%A Renato Moreira
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2012
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822012000300023
%X introduction: this study analyzed the occurrence and the contamination of triatomines by trypanosomatids in orbignya speciosa (babassu) specimens in the state of rond£¿nia, brazil, in two different environments (pasture and woods). methods: capture of triatomines on babassus and microscopic search for trypanosomatids in their digestive tube were carried out. results: four hundred ninety-four (494) specimens were captured (rhodnius prolixus and r.robustus), of which 35.6% of the triatomines were positive for trypanosomatids. conclusions: the high index of natural infection along with the abundance of triatomines points out to the necessity to create an epidemiological surveillance system to monitor vector-borne transmission and deepen the studies on the ecology of such vectors in the amazon.
%K triatomines
%K chagas'disease
%K amazon.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822012000300023&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en