Title
Atlas of Mexican Triatominae (Reduviidae: Hemiptera) and vector transmission of Chagas disease
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Ramsey J.
Townsend Peterson A.
Carmona-Castro O.
Moo-Llanes D.
Nakazawa Y.
Butrick M.
Tun-Ku E.
de la Cruz-Félix K.
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Publisher(s)
Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz
Abstract
Chagas disease is one of the most important yet neglected parasitic diseases in Mexico and is transmitted by Triatominae. Nineteen of the 31 Mexican triatomine species have been consistently found to invade human houses and all have been found to be naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. The present paper aims to produce a state-of-knowledge atlas of Mexican triatomines and analyse their geographic associations with T. cruzi, human demographics and landscape modification. Ecological niche models (ENMs) were constructed for the 19 species with more than 10 records in North America, as well as for T. cruzi. The 2010 Mexican national census and the 2007 National Forestry Inventory were used to analyse overlap patterns with ENMs. Niche breadth was greatest in species from the semiarid Nearctic Region, whereas species richness was associated with topographic heterogeneity in the Neotropical Region, particularly along the Pacific Coast. Three species, Triatoma longipennis, Triatoma mexicana and Triatoma barberi, overlapped with the greatest numbers of human communities, but these communities had the lowest rural/urban population ratios. Triatomine vectors have urbanised in most regions, demonstrating a high tolerance to human-modified habitats and broadened historical ranges, exposing more than 88% of the Mexican population and leaving few areas in Mexico without the potential for T. cruzi transmission.
Start page
339
End page
352
Volume
110
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84928142579
PubMed ID
Source
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
ISSN of the container
00740276
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Directorio de Producción Científica
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