Description of Sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Thailand

BACKGROUND: Since 1996, there are emerging autochthonous cases of leishmaniasis in Thailand due to Leishmania “siamensis” and to L. martiniquensis explaining a recent interest for the sand fly fauna where Sergentomyia gemmea and Se. barraudi have been considered possible vectors in the country. METH...

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Autores principales: Polseela, Raxsina, Depaquit, Jerome, Apiwathnasorn, Chamnarn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26772172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1300-4
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author Polseela, Raxsina
Depaquit, Jerome
Apiwathnasorn, Chamnarn
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description BACKGROUND: Since 1996, there are emerging autochthonous cases of leishmaniasis in Thailand due to Leishmania “siamensis” and to L. martiniquensis explaining a recent interest for the sand fly fauna where Sergentomyia gemmea and Se. barraudi have been considered possible vectors in the country. METHODS: Field studies were undertaken in a cave of Phitsanulok Province, Thailand. Phlebotomine sandflies have been studied morphologically and some have been processed for molecular biology (sequencing of cytB rDNA). RESULTS: A new species of sand fly, belonging to the genus Sergentomyia: Se. phadangensis n. sp., is described. The association of the male and female is supported by the homology of the sequences of cytochrome b rDNA. CONCLUSIONS: The description of a new species in Thailand is of importance in view of the existence of autochthonous leishmaniases.
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spelling pubmed-47144612016-01-16 Description of Sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Thailand Polseela, Raxsina Depaquit, Jerome Apiwathnasorn, Chamnarn Parasit Vectors Research BACKGROUND: Since 1996, there are emerging autochthonous cases of leishmaniasis in Thailand due to Leishmania “siamensis” and to L. martiniquensis explaining a recent interest for the sand fly fauna where Sergentomyia gemmea and Se. barraudi have been considered possible vectors in the country. METHODS: Field studies were undertaken in a cave of Phitsanulok Province, Thailand. Phlebotomine sandflies have been studied morphologically and some have been processed for molecular biology (sequencing of cytB rDNA). RESULTS: A new species of sand fly, belonging to the genus Sergentomyia: Se. phadangensis n. sp., is described. The association of the male and female is supported by the homology of the sequences of cytochrome b rDNA. CONCLUSIONS: The description of a new species in Thailand is of importance in view of the existence of autochthonous leishmaniases. BioMed Central 2016-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4714461/ /pubmed/26772172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1300-4 Text en © Polseela et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Description of Sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Thailand
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title_full_unstemmed Description of Sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Thailand
title_short Description of Sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (Diptera, Psychodidae) of Thailand
title_sort description of sergentomyia phadangensis n. sp. (diptera, psychodidae) of thailand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26772172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1300-4
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