Morfologia de imaturos de Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) e Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) neivai (Pinto, 1926) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) : vetores de Leishmaniose Tegumentar no Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Wagner Alexandre
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3898
• topic: Flebotomíneos; Microscopia eletrônica de varredura; Taxonomia; Sandfly; Electron sweep microscopy; Taxonomy; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ZOOLOGIA::MORFOLOGIA DOS GRUPOS RECENTES

The sandfly are diseases caused by protozoa, intracellular binding, plagued heteroxenic, pathogenic to humans, belonging to the genus Leishmania Ross,.These are considered serious human protozoan public health problems worldwide, affecting indiscriminately men, women and children, causing different clinical manifestations. Its distribution reaches the tropical and subtropical regions of America, Africa, Asia, Europe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), we observed the occurrence of this disease in 88 countries, of which 16 are developed. Currently it is estimated there, worldwide, around 350 million people in areas at risk of both leishmaniasis (WHO, 2006). In the Americas, the visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, have wide distribution, with records of cases from the extreme south of the United States to northern Argentina, with the exception of Chile and Uruguay. The visceral leishmaniasis occurs from Mexico to Argentina, however, was not registered yet, Uruguay, in the Andean countries, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and northern South America, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname (LAISON & Shaw, 1998). In the Brazilian territory, the leishmaniasis are included in the list of diseases that make up the Schengen Information System Diseases of Compulsory Notification (SNDC), and Brazil considered the country with the highest prevalence of these.