Biotic factors and occurrence of Lutzomyia longipalpis in endemic area of visceral leishmaniasis, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil |
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Authors: | de Oliveira Everton Falcão e Silva Elaine Araújo Fernandes Carlos Eurico dos Santos Paranhos Filho Antonio Conceição Gamarra Roberto Macedo Ribeiro Alisson André Brazil Reginaldo Peçanha de Oliveira Alessandra Gutierrez |
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Institution: | Programa de Pós-gradua??o em Doen?as Infecciosas e Parasitárias, Faculdade de Medicina Dr Hélio Mandetta, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brasil. evertonfalcaodeoliveira@yahoo.com.br |
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Abstract: | The relationships between environmental exposure to risk agents and health conditions have been studied with the aid of remote sensing imagery, a tool particularly useful in the study of vegetation cover. This study aims to evaluate the influence of environmental variables on the spatial distribution of the abundance of Lutzomyia longipalpis and the reported canine and human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) cases at an urban area of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The sandfly captures were performed in 13 residences that were selected by raffle considering four residences or collection station for buffer. These buffers were generated from the central house with about 50, 100 and 200 m from it in an endemic area of VL. The abundance of sandflies and human and canine cases were georreferenced using the GIS software PCI Geomatica. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and percentage of land covered by vegetation were the environmental variables extracted from a remote sensing IKONOS-2 image. The average NDVI was considered as the complexity of habitat and the standard deviation as the heterogeneity of habitat. One thousand three hundred sixty-seven specimens were collected during the catch. We found a significant positive linear correlation between the abundance of sandflies and the percentage of vegetation cover and average NDVI. However, there was no significant association between habitat heterogeneity and the abundance of these flies. |
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