| habitats of the sandfly vectors of leishmania tropica and l. major in a mixed focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in southeast tunisia. | from 2009 to 2010, 3129 sandflies were caught in cdc light traps placed in various habitats in ghomrassen, tataouine governorate, southeast tunisia, a mixed focus of human cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by leishmania tropica and leishmania major. species diversity was quantified in anthropogenic, semi-anthropogenic and semi-natural locations. sandflies were identified according to morphological characters and also by the comparative sequence analysis of a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome ... | 2011 | 21605538 |
| proceedings of the ix international symposium on phlebotomine sandflies (isops ix), reims, france, june 28th-july 1st, 2016. | | 2016 | 27677701 |
| phlebotomus sergenti (parrot, 1917) identified as leishmania killicki host in gharda+»a, south algeria. | since 2005, an outbreak of human cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) in gharda+»a, south algeria, was studied and one output of these investigations was the identification of two leishmania species, leishmania major and leishmania killicki, as the cl causative agents. in the present study, we were curious to focus on sand fly fauna present in this area and detection of leishmania-positive sand fly females. sand flies (3717) were collected during two seasons using sticky papers and cdc light traps in ur ... | 2011 | 21382502 |
| [molecular and morphological characterisation of two closely related species belonging to the subgenus phlebotomus chabaudi croset, abonnenc & rioux, 1970 et p. riouxi depaquit, killick-kendrick & léger, 1998 (diptera: psychodidae)]. | in 1998, the description of phlebotomus riouxi emphasised the difficulty to differentiate the female from the closely related p. chabaudi, a suspected vector of leishmania killicki in several foci in tunisia. in order to be able to distinguish the females of these two species, we started a molecular study based on 37 algerian and tunisian specimens. the alignment of the sequences of the cytochrome b of the mitochondrial dna and their analysis using neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood and maximu ... | 2008 | 19202763 |
| phlebotomus (paraphlebotomus) riouxi: a synonym of phlebotomus chabaudi without any proven vectorial role in tunisia and algeria. | phlebotomus (paraphlebotomus) riouxi depaquit, léger & killick-kendrick (diptera: psychodidae) was described as a typological species based on a few morphological characters distinguishing it from phlebotomus (paraphlebotomus) chabaudi croset, abonnenc & rioux. the naming of p. riouxi coincided with its incrimination as a rural vector of leishmania tropica wright (junior synonym: leishmania killicki rioux, lanotte & pratlong) in tataouine governorate, an arid region of southern tunisia. the curr ... | 2014 | 25171607 |
| natural infection of north african gundi (ctenodactylus gundi) by leishmania tropica in the focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis, southeast tunisia. | north african gundis (ctenodactylus gundi) were trapped in the leishmania (l.) tropica focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis, situated in southeast tunisia and evaluated for leishmania infection by real-time kinetoplast dna polymerase chain reaction (pcr). species identification was performed by internal transcribed spacer one (its1)-pcr-restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) and high-resolution melting (hrm) analysis of the 7sl rna gene. real-time pcr on blood was positive in 6 of 13 (46.2% ... | 0 | 22665601 |
| identification of phlebotomine sand flies (diptera: psychodidae) by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry. | phlebotomine sand flies are incriminated in the transmission of several human and veterinary pathogens. to elucidate their role as vectors, proper species identification is crucial. since traditional morphological determination is based on minute and often dubious characteristics on their head and genitalia, which require certain expertise and may be damaged in the field-collected material, there is a demand for rapid, simple and cost-effective molecular approaches. | 2014 | 24423215 |
| limits of a rapid identification of common mediterranean sandflies using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism. | a total of 131 phlebotomine algerian sandflies have been processed in the present study. they belong to the species phlebotomus bergeroti, phlebotomus alexandri, phlebotomus sergenti, phlebotomus chabaudi, phlebotomus riouxi, phlebotomus perniciosus, phlebotomus longicuspis, phlebotomus perfiliewi, phlebotomus ariasi, phlebotomus chadlii, sergentomyia fallax, sergentomyia minuta, sergentomyia antennata, sergentomyia schwetzi, sergentomyia clydei, sergentomyia christophersi and grassomyia dreyfus ... | 2014 | 24936911 |
| phlebotomus (paraphlebotomus) chabaudi and phlebotomus riouxi: closely related species or synonyms? | phlebotomus riouxi depaquit, killick-kendrick & léger 1998 was described as a species closely related to phlebotomus chabaudi croset, abonnenc & rioux 1970, differing mainly by the size and number of setae of the coxite basal lobe. molecular studies carried out on several populations from algeria and tunisia and based on mitochondrial genes cytochrome b (cytb) and cytochrome oxidase i (coi) supported the typological validity of these two species. recently, specimens from a single population in s ... | 2017 | 29194032 |