Home sweet home: sand flies find a refuge in remote indigenous villages in north-eastern Brazil, where leishmaniasis is endemic.
Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva SalesDébora Elienai de Oliveira MirandaPietra Lemos CostaFernando José da SilvaLuciana Aguiar FigueredoSinval Pinto Brandão-FilhoFilipe Dantas-TorresPublished in: Parasites & vectors (2019)
The results suggest that different sand fly vectors may be adapted to human dwellings, thus increasing the risk of transmission in the indoor and immediate outdoor environments. The adaptation of sand flies to the indoor environment in the studied indigenous villages may be partly explained by the poor housing conditions and the proximity of the houses to crop plantations and forest fragments.