[The finding of Panstrongylus megistus in an artificial ecotope: taking up residence or merely visiting?].
As a first measure of Chagas' disease control in Brazil with chemical elimination of the most important vector of the disease, Triatoma infestans was removed. Attention is now being paid to Triatoma sordida and Panstrongylus megistus. That species can eventually be found inside houses, as happened with the specimens we examined from Bernardino de Campos and Sete Barras, all of them infected by Trypanosoma cruzi. These data suggest that a better knowledge about the behavior that species is needed to introduce changes in the control measures.
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D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000469:parasitology; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000469:parasitology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009758:Nymph / Q000469:parasitology; D010203:Panstrongylus / Q000469:parasitology*; D018512:Parasitemia / Q000469:parasitology; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity