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ArticleMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2015

Atlas of Mexican Triatominae (Reduviidae: Hemiptera) and vector transmission of Chagas disease.

Janine M Ramsey, A Townsend Peterson, Oscar Carmona-Castro, David A Moo-Llanes, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Morgan Butrick, Ezequiel Tun-Ku, Keynes de la Cruz-Félix, Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña

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Article in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 158 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Janine M RamseyCentro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
A Townsend PetersonBiodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Oscar Carmona-CastroCentro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
David A Moo-LlanesCentro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Yoshinori NakazawaBiodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Morgan ButrickBiodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Ezequiel Tun-KuCentro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Keynes de la Cruz-FélixCentro Regional de Investigación en Salud Pública, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Tapachula, Chiapas, México.
Carlos N Ibarra-CerdeñaCentro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública · MXUniversity of Kansas · USInstituto Politécnico Nacional · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease is one of the most important yet neglected parasitic diseases in Mexico and is transmitted by Triatominae. Nineteen of the 31 Mexican triatomine species have been consistently found to invade human houses and all have been found to be naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. The present paper aims to produce a state-of-knowledge atlas of Mexican triatomines and analyse their geographic associations with T. cruzi, human demographics and landscape modification. Ecological niche models (ENMs) were constructed for the 19 species with more than 10 records in North America, as well as for T. cruzi. The 2010 Mexican national census and the 2007 National Forestry Inventory were used to analyse overlap patterns with ENMs. Niche breadth was greatest in species from the semiarid Nearctic Region, whereas species richness was associated with topographic heterogeneity in the Neotropical Region, particularly along the Pacific Coast. Three species, Triatoma longipennis, Triatoma mexicana and Triatoma barberi, overlapped with the greatest numbers of human communities, but these communities had the lowest rural/urban population ratios. Triatomine vectors have urbanised in most regions, demonstrating a high tolerance to human-modified habitats and broadened historical ranges, exposing more than 88% of the Mexican population and leaving few areas in Mexico without the potential for T. cruzi transmission.

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AnimalsChagas DiseaseEcosystemGeography, MedicalInsect VectorsMexicoModels, BiologicalPopulation DensityTriatominae

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