Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Research
Infection of Kissing Bugs with Trypanosoma cruzi, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Table
Collection sites and collected insects per area, triatomine insects survey, metropolitan Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2006*
Area | No. collection sites (% with insects infected with Trypanosoma cruzi) | No. insects collected (% infected with T. cruzi) |
---|---|---|
Central | 2 (100) | 2 (100) |
North | 1 (0) | 2 (0) |
Northeast | 1 (100) | 2 (50) |
Northwest | 6 (66) | 14 (43) |
South | 0 | 0 |
Southeast | 3 (66) | 11 (45) |
Southwest | 2 (100) | 19 (42) |
East | 0 | 0 |
West | 4 (100) | 88 (40) |
*Information about collection sites was obtained for 139 of the 164 bugs collected. An individual collector from the western area provided an unusually large number of insects (n = 73).
1Current affiliation: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Diamante, Argentina.