INTRODUCTION We report the first find of Lutzomyia longipalpis in the State of Paraná, Brazil. METHODS The specimens were captured in the urban area of the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu, with Falcão light traps, in domiciliary and peridomiciliary areas of 61 properties, on two consecutive nights from 18:00 to 06:00hs in March 2012. RESULTS We captured 40 specimens of Lu. longipalpis and 54 ...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to inventory the phlebotomine sandfly fauna present in the urban area of Juiz de Fora, with an emphasis on the genus Lutzomyia. METHODS Capture was performed from March to September 2012, using HP light traps placed at peridomestic sites, in a municipal kennel and a forest biome. RESULTS A total of 133 specimens were captured, representing eight species of the ...

Sir,?Much evidence purporting to support the theory that sandflies transmit leishmaniasis has accumulated. This is not surprising for such evidence has been looked for too assiduously and Pasteur's dictum?? Be very careful when you are looking for a thing or you will be sure to find it'?has been frequently ignored in these investigations. Malone and Brooks (1944) gave reasons for believing that...

Analyses of the virion polypeptides and genomes of several Phlebotomus fever group viruses, Karimabad, Punta Toro, Chagres, and the sandfly fever Sicilian serotype viruses, have established that they are biochemically similar to the accepted members of the Bunyaviridae family. Like snowshoe hare virus (a member of the California serogroup of the Bunyavirus genus of the Bunyaviridae family), Kar...

BACKGROUND Many studies have presented virus sequences which suggest the existence of a variety of putative new phleboviruses transmitted by sandflies in the Old World. However, in most of these studies, only partial sequences in the polymerase or the nucleoprotein genes were characterised. Therefore to further our understand of the presence and potential medical importance of sandfly-borne phl...