Maria-Rosa Goreti Freitas's research while affiliated with Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and other places

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Fig. 1: Brazil, Roraima state, Boa Vista and Caçari neighbourhood where specimens of Triatoma maculata were collected, September 2015.  
Fig. 2: external concrete-made air conditioner boxes (A, arrows), a eight-hole ceramic brick (B) were Triatoma maculata specimens were found (C) in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, September 2015.  
Triatoma maculata colonises urban domicilies in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Alice Ricardo-Silva

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José Francisco Luitgards-Moura

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Maria-Rosa Goreti Freitas

During a medical entomology course in Boa Vista, Roraima, colonies of Triatoma maculata closely associated with pigeon nests were observed in concrete air-conditioner box located on the external plastered and cemented walls of a modern brick-built apartment block. In only one eight-hole ceramic brick, located inside one air-conditioner box, 127 specimens of T. maculata were collected. T. maculata is a recognised vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in the surrounding area and its domiciliation increases the risk of Chagas disease transmission.

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... Some studies incriminated to T. maculata as an emergent vector of T. cruzi. Several examples are referred in Brazilian-Venezuelan bordering states, where these infected vectors invade domestic bird nests; in the Colombian Caribbean, where naturally infected triatomines, invade human dwellings or in the eastern region of Venezuela where is registered as vector in association with acute CD (Morocoima et al. 2008;Cantillo-Barraza et al. 2015;Ricardo-Silva et al. 2016). ...

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Domiciliation and sympatry of Triatoma maculata and Rhodnius prolixus, risk of Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in villages of Anzoátegui, Venezuela
Triatoma maculata colonises urban domicilies in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Alice Ricardo-Silva

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José Francisco Luitgards-Moura

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Maria-Rosa Goreti Freitas