Phlebotomine Sandflies - Potential Vectors of Avian Trypanosomes

• Authors: Milena Svobodová , Jana Rádrová

Abstracts

EN

Phlebotomine sandflies were tested as potential vectors of avian trypanosomes (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae). Lutzomyia longipalpis and Phlebotomus arabicus took bloodmeals with cultured Trypanosoma avium parasites; mature infections with stages transmissible to canaries (Serinus canaria) developed in the sandflies. The infection rates ranged between 66 and 89%, with heavy infections in 24 - 78% fed females. L. longipalpis that fed on infected birds were also infected, and some developed mature infections (37 and 19%, resp). On the contrary, Lutzomyia longipalpis and Phlebotomus arabicus were not susceptible to infection with trypanosomes from T. bennetti clade. Our results, together with the previous findings of naturally infected L. caballeroi, suggest that sandflies could serve as vectors of avian trypanosomes from the T. avium clade.

Keywords

EN

Lutzomyia longipalpis; Phlebotomus arabicus; Trypanosoma avium; Trypanosoma bennetti; host specificity; life cycle; transmission; Psychodiella chagasi

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Journal: Acta Protozoologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-59

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Milena Svobodová

• Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

author

Jana Rádrová

• Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16890027AP.18.005.8399

Biblioteka Nauki

52160007