27 November 2025
In Brazil, public health programs have relied predominantly on chemical insecticides to control Aedes aegypti, Anopheles spp., Culex quinquefasciatus, triatomines, and phlebotomines. Rising vector-borne disease incidence and insecticide resistance (I...
A native strain of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bb-C001) was isolated from a naturally infected Triatoma infestans, Klug (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) adult cadaver in the Gran Chaco region, Salta province, Argentina. The isolate was bot...
The blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans is the main Chagas disease vector in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Populations resistant to pyrethroid insecticides have been detected in the early 2000s and then expanded to the endemic area of northern...
Chagas disease control relies on chemical interventions, currently compromised by insecticide resistance. Triatoma virus (TrV) emerges as a biological candidate, requiring standardized methodologies to purify, quantify, and relate viral doses to biol...
We ascertain the in vitro Benznidazole (BZN) and Nifurtimox (NFX) susceptibility pattern of epimastigotes, trypomastigotes, and amastigotes of 21 T. cruzi strains, from patients, reservoir, and triatomine bugs of various geographic origins. Using thi...
Populations of Triatomas infestans with different susceptibility to pyrethroid insecticides were reported to have distinct evolutionary and epidemiological characteristics. We aimed at evaluating metacyclogenesis and parasite load as measures of vect...
Triatomines are vectors of Chagas disease. Control of Triatoma infestans, one of its main vectors, relies largely on the use of pyrethroid insecticides. However, due to resistance to them as well as environmental concerns, alternative control strateg...