TY - JOUR
TI - Phlebotomine Sandflies - Potential Vectors of Avian Trypanosomes
AU - Svobodová, Milena
AU - Rádrová, Jana
TI - Phlebotomine Sandflies - Potential Vectors of Avian Trypanosomes
AB - 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.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 57, Issue 1
PY - 2018
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 53
EP - 59
DO - 10.4467/16890027AP.18.005.8399
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/phlebotomine-sandflies-potential-vectors-of-avian-trypanosomes
KW - Lutzomyia longipalpis
KW - Phlebotomus arabicus
KW - Trypanosoma avium
KW - Trypanosoma bennetti
KW - host specificity
KW - life cycle
KW - transmission
KW - Psychodiella sergenti