Trichophoromyia auraensis is a putative vector

• Main Authors: Carolina Bioni Garcia Teles, Felipe Arley Costa Pessoa, Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Thais de Araujo-Pereira, Daniela de Pita-Pereira, Mariana Côrtes Boité, Myllena Melo, Taiana Amancio da Costa-Rego, Andressa Alencastre Fuzari, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil, Constança Britto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde
• Series: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
• Subjects: Leishmania; disease vectors; Acre; Brazil; Trichophoromyia auraensis
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762017000700517&lng=en&tlng=en

The sandfly Trichophoromyia auraensis has recently evolved as a proven vector of Leishmania (Viannia) endemic to state of Acre in the north of Brazil. This note is intended to propose a correction in the report of the first occurrence of natural infection of Leishmania (Viannia) in this species. We and the other scientific groups reinforced that Tr. auraensis is a possible vector involved in the transmission of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Acre, Brazil.