ABSTRACT
In order to determine the risk of transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi by triatomines in Metztitlan municipality, Hidalgo State, Mexico, entomological indexes were calculated and the characteristics of dwellings were described. A transversal, retrospective, descriptive, and observational study was performed by means of an intentional not probabilistic and expertise sampling from January to December of 2005 in 10 localities in which presence of triatomines were investigated either intra or peridomestic environmental in 699 houses. Building material and presence of infected triatomines with T. cruzi were registered to determine entomologic indexes. The triatomine species collected were: Triatoma barberi (Usinger) and T. mexicana (Herrich-Schaeffer) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). The results indicated that natural infection index varied from 7.7 percent to 50 percent; colonization index reached 80 percent; infestation index varied from 7.7 percent to 25 percent; dispersion index was 70 percent. Stone-walled houses were more infested. We can conclude that it is necessary to establish T. cruzi transmission control measures against triatomines in localities from Metztitlan, primarily in stone-walled houses where T. barberi occurs, as it was the most important vector species in the transmission of T. cruzi in this municipality.
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Humans , Chagas Disease/transmission , Demography , Housing , Mexico , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Se informa que en dos localidades, una perteneciente al estado de Queretaro y otra al de Guanajuato, se encontro Triatoma barberi. Se hace enfasis en el hallazgo debido a que estos dos estados aun no se habian senalado en la literatura medica con triatominos transmisores de enfermedad de Chagas. De esta manera se cubre todo el territorio nacional, en el cual existen una o mas poblaciones pertenecientes a cada uno de los estados con informes de hallazgos de triatominos infectados y no infectados en forma natural con Trypanosoma cruzi