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Table 1 Summary of capture and infection in triatomine insects by T. cruzi, and seroprevalecence in dogs

From: Eco-epidemiological study of an endemic Chagas disease region in northern Colombia reveals the importance of Triatoma maculata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), dogs and Didelphis marsupialis in Trypanosoma cruzi maintenance

 

Peridomiciliary hosts

Vectors

 

Dogs

Synanthropic mammals

Triatomine insects

Human screening

  

Didelphis

Rattus

    

Municipality

Locality

Evaluated Houses

n

IR

n

Infection rate

n

Infection rate

T. maculata

Other species

n

% infection

Mompós

Tierrafirme (TF)

80

39

71.7

6

50

0

ND

14

1

112

0.89

La Rinconada (LR)

90

38

68.4

3

33

0

ND

8

2

81

0

La Loma de Simon (LS)

50

8

62.5

2

100

0

ND

8

0

100

1

Guataca (G)

60

ND

ND

ND

ND

0

ND

2

0

70

0

Talaigua

Talaigua Nuevo (TN)

140

86

69.7

2

100a

10

0

81

1

290

0

Talaigua Viejo (TV)

40

36

77.7

0

0

0

ND

2

2

69

0

El Vesubio (V)

50

37

64.8

0

0

0

ND

2

1

81

0

Total

 

510

244

71.3

13

61,54

10

0

117

7

803

0.25

  1. T. cruzi infection in small mammalian fauna and humans was examined in the study areas Tierrafirme (TF), La Rinconada (LR), La Loma de Simon (LS), Guataca (G), Talaigua Nuevo (TN), Talaigua Viejo (TV), El Vesubio (EV)
  2. aOne of them with positive infection in a scent gland