Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Franco-Paredes C, Ault SK, Periago MR, 2008. The neglected tropical diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: 1–11.
Franco-Paredes C, Von A, Hidron A, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Tellez I, Barragán M, Jones D, Náquira CG, Mendez J, 2007. Chagas disease: an impediment in achieving the millenium development goals in Latin America. BMC Int Health Hum Rights 7: 1–7.
Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2006. Estimación cuantitativa de la enfermedad de Chagas en las Américas. Organizaci?n Panamericana de la Salud. Washington/HDM/CD/425-06.
Guhl F, Aguilera G, Pinto N, Vergara D, 2007. Actualización de la distribución geográfica y ecoepidemiología de la fauna de triatominos (Reduviidae: Triatominae) en Colombia. Biomedica 27 (Suppl 1): 143–162.
World Health Organization, 2002. Control of Chagas Disease. Technical Report Series 905. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1–109.
Gómez-Palacio A, Triana O, Jaramillo-O N, Dotson EM, Marcet PL, 2013. Eco-geographical differentiation among Colombian populations of the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera:Reduviidae). Infect Genet Evol 20: 352–361.
Ramirez C, Jaramillo C, Delgado MP, Pinto N, Aguilera G, Guhl F, 2005. Genetic structure of sylvatic, peridomestic and domestic populations of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from and endemic zone of Boyacá, Colombia. Acta Trop 93: 23–29.
Bustamante DM, Monroy C, Pineda S, Rodas A, Castro X, Ayala V, Quiñones J, Moguel B, Trampe R, 2009. Risk factors for intradomiciliary infestation by the Chagas desease vector Triatoma dimidiata in Jutiapa, Guatemala. Cad Saude Publica 25: 83–92.
Guhl F, Aguilera G, Pinto N, Vergara D, 2007. Updated geographical distribution and ecoepidemiology of the triatomine fauna (Reduviidae: Triatominae) in Colombia. Biomedica 27: 143–162.
Dorn PL, Monroy C, Curtis A, 2006. Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811): a review of its diversity across its geographical range and the relationship among populations. Infect Genet Evol 7: 343–352.
Starr MD, Rojas JC, Zeledon R, Hird DW, Carpenter TE, 1991. Chagas' disease: risk factors for house infestation by Triatoma dimidiata, the major vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in Costa Rica. Am J Epidemiol 133: 740–747.
Dumonteil E, Gourbiere S, Barrera-Perez M, Rodriguez-Felix E, Ruiz-Piña H, Baños-Lopez O, Ramirez-Sierra MJ, Menu F, Rabinovich J, 2002. Geographic distribution of Triatoma dimidiata and transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Yucatan península of Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 67: 176–183.
Salazar-Schettino PM, Arteaga I, Cabrera M, 2005. Tres especies de triatominos y su importancia como vectores de Trypanosoma cruzi en México. Medicina (B Aires) 65: 63–69.
Zeledón R, Calvo N, Montenegro V, Seixas E, Arevalo C, 2005. A survey on Triatoma dimidiata in an urban area of the province of Heredia, Costa Rica. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 100: 607–612.
Guzmán-Tapia Y, Ramírez-Sierra MJ, Dumonteil E, 2007. Urban infestation by Triatoma dimidiata in the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 597–606.
King R, Cordon-Rosales C, Cox J, Davies C, Kitron U, 2011. Triatoma dimidiata infestation in Chagas disease endemic regions of Guatemala: comparison of random and targeted cross-sectional surveys. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5: e1035.
Medina-Torres I, Vásquez-Chagoyán J, Rodriguez-Vivas R, Montes de Oca-Jiménez R, 2010. Risk factors associated with triatomines and its infection with Trypanosoma cruzi in rural communities form southern region of the state of Mexico, Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 49–54.
Campbell-Lendrum D, Angulo VM, Esteban L, Tarazona Z, Parra GJ, Restrepo M, Restrepo BN, Guhl F, Pinto N, Aguilera G, Wilkerson P, Davies C, 2007. House-level risk factors for triatominae infestation in Colombia. Int J Epidemiol 14: 1–7.
Angulo VM, Muñoz G, Tarazona Z, 1993. Factores de riesgo de la vivienda para infestación domiciliaria por triatomineos. Biomedica 13 (Suppl 1): 124–125.
Holdridge L, 1978. Ecología: Basada en zonas de vida. Traducido al español por E. Jiménez Saa. San José, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación Para la Agricultura, 1–216.
Lent H, Wygodzinsky P, 1979. Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas disease. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 163: 125–516.
Souto RP, Fernandes O, Macedo AM, Campbell DA, Zingales B, 1996. DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 83: 141–152.
Sturm NR, Degrave W, Morel C, Simpson L, 1989. Sensitive detection and schizodeme classification of Trypanosoma cruzi cells by amplification of kinetoplast minicircle DNA sequences: use in diagnosis of Chagas' disease. Mol Biochem Parasitol 33: 205–214.
Guhl F, Restrepo M, Angulo VM, Antunes CM, Campbell-Lendrum D, Davies C, 2005. Lessons from a national survey of Chagas disease transmission risk in Colombia. Trends Parasitol 21: 259–262.
Becerril-Flores M, Rangel-Flores E, Imbert-Palafox J, Gómez-Gómez J, Figueroa Gutiérrez A, 2007. Human infection and risk of transmission of Chagas disease in Hidalgo state, México. Am J Trop Med Hyg 76: 318–323.
Guevara A, Garzón E, Bowen C, Córdova X, Gómez E, Ouaissi A, 2005. High infection rates of Triatoma dimidiata are associated with low levels of Trypanosoma cruzi seroprevalence in Pedro Carbo, Ecuador. Use of a tc24 gene-based PCR approach. Parasite 12: 65–68.
Zeledon R, Zuñiga A, Swartzwelder J, 1969. The camouflage of Triatoma dimidiate and the epidemiology of Chagas disease in Costa Rica. Bol Chil Parasitol 24: 106–108.
Nakagawa J, Cordon-Rosales C, Juarez J, Itzep C, Nonami T, 2003. Impact of residual spraying on Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata in the department of Zacapa in Guatemala. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 98: 277–281.
Tabaru Y, Monroy C, Rodas A, Mejía M, Rosales R, 1999. The geographical distribution of vectors of Chagas disease and population at risk of infestation in Guatemala. Med Entomol Zool 50: 3–8.
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In Colombia, the main vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, are Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata. T. dimidiata is present in the east region of Colombia as domestic, peridomestic, and sylvatic populations, resulting in difficulties for its control. A cost-effective way to prioritize houses for treatment is to stratify houses based on risk factors. In this study, risk factors were evaluated for potential associations with domicile infestation of T. dimidiata. There was an increased likelihood of domestic infestation associated with the presence of mixed roofs (odds ratio [OR] = 36.14, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] = 12.21–106.97), cats (OR = 3.94, 95% CI = 1.36–11.38), rock piles (OR = 5.28, 95% CI = 1.64–16.98), and bushes with height above 10 m (OR = 11.21, 95% CI = 2.08–60.45). These factors could be used to target surveillance and control of T. dimidiata to houses with an increased risk of being infested.
Financial support: Funding for this work was provided by Colciencias Colombia Contracts 410–2005 and 380–2011. N.A. received support from the United Kingdom Medical Research Council and Department for International Development Grant MR/K012126/1.
Authors' addresses: Gabriel Parra-Henao, Red Chagas Colombia, Grupo de Epidemiología y Bioestadística, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia, and Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical, Medellín, Colombia, E-mail: gparrahenao@gmail.com. Ángela Segura Cardona and Oscar Quirós-Gómez, Grupo de Epidemiología y Bioestadística, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia, E-mails: asegura@ces.edu.co and quiromez@hotmail.com. Víctor Angulo, Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia, E-mail: pitorio@hotmail.com. Neal Alexander, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, E-mail: neal.alexander@lshtm.ac.uk.
Reprint requests: Gabriel Parra-Henao, Avenue Calle 26 No 51-20, Bogotá, Colombia, E-mail: gparrahenao@gmail.com.
Hotez PJ, Bottazzi ME, Franco-Paredes C, Ault SK, Periago MR, 2008. The neglected tropical diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: a review of disease burden and distribution and a roadmap for control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: 1–11.
Franco-Paredes C, Von A, Hidron A, Rodriguez-Morales AJ, Tellez I, Barragán M, Jones D, Náquira CG, Mendez J, 2007. Chagas disease: an impediment in achieving the millenium development goals in Latin America. BMC Int Health Hum Rights 7: 1–7.
Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2006. Estimación cuantitativa de la enfermedad de Chagas en las Américas. Organizaci?n Panamericana de la Salud. Washington/HDM/CD/425-06.
Guhl F, Aguilera G, Pinto N, Vergara D, 2007. Actualización de la distribución geográfica y ecoepidemiología de la fauna de triatominos (Reduviidae: Triatominae) en Colombia. Biomedica 27 (Suppl 1): 143–162.
World Health Organization, 2002. Control of Chagas Disease. Technical Report Series 905. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1–109.
Gómez-Palacio A, Triana O, Jaramillo-O N, Dotson EM, Marcet PL, 2013. Eco-geographical differentiation among Colombian populations of the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera:Reduviidae). Infect Genet Evol 20: 352–361.
Ramirez C, Jaramillo C, Delgado MP, Pinto N, Aguilera G, Guhl F, 2005. Genetic structure of sylvatic, peridomestic and domestic populations of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from and endemic zone of Boyacá, Colombia. Acta Trop 93: 23–29.
Bustamante DM, Monroy C, Pineda S, Rodas A, Castro X, Ayala V, Quiñones J, Moguel B, Trampe R, 2009. Risk factors for intradomiciliary infestation by the Chagas desease vector Triatoma dimidiata in Jutiapa, Guatemala. Cad Saude Publica 25: 83–92.
Guhl F, Aguilera G, Pinto N, Vergara D, 2007. Updated geographical distribution and ecoepidemiology of the triatomine fauna (Reduviidae: Triatominae) in Colombia. Biomedica 27: 143–162.
Dorn PL, Monroy C, Curtis A, 2006. Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811): a review of its diversity across its geographical range and the relationship among populations. Infect Genet Evol 7: 343–352.
Starr MD, Rojas JC, Zeledon R, Hird DW, Carpenter TE, 1991. Chagas' disease: risk factors for house infestation by Triatoma dimidiata, the major vector of Trypanosoma cruzi in Costa Rica. Am J Epidemiol 133: 740–747.
Dumonteil E, Gourbiere S, Barrera-Perez M, Rodriguez-Felix E, Ruiz-Piña H, Baños-Lopez O, Ramirez-Sierra MJ, Menu F, Rabinovich J, 2002. Geographic distribution of Triatoma dimidiata and transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi in the Yucatan península of Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 67: 176–183.
Salazar-Schettino PM, Arteaga I, Cabrera M, 2005. Tres especies de triatominos y su importancia como vectores de Trypanosoma cruzi en México. Medicina (B Aires) 65: 63–69.
Zeledón R, Calvo N, Montenegro V, Seixas E, Arevalo C, 2005. A survey on Triatoma dimidiata in an urban area of the province of Heredia, Costa Rica. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 100: 607–612.
Guzmán-Tapia Y, Ramírez-Sierra MJ, Dumonteil E, 2007. Urban infestation by Triatoma dimidiata in the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis 7: 597–606.
King R, Cordon-Rosales C, Cox J, Davies C, Kitron U, 2011. Triatoma dimidiata infestation in Chagas disease endemic regions of Guatemala: comparison of random and targeted cross-sectional surveys. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5: e1035.
Medina-Torres I, Vásquez-Chagoyán J, Rodriguez-Vivas R, Montes de Oca-Jiménez R, 2010. Risk factors associated with triatomines and its infection with Trypanosoma cruzi in rural communities form southern region of the state of Mexico, Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 82: 49–54.
Campbell-Lendrum D, Angulo VM, Esteban L, Tarazona Z, Parra GJ, Restrepo M, Restrepo BN, Guhl F, Pinto N, Aguilera G, Wilkerson P, Davies C, 2007. House-level risk factors for triatominae infestation in Colombia. Int J Epidemiol 14: 1–7.
Angulo VM, Muñoz G, Tarazona Z, 1993. Factores de riesgo de la vivienda para infestación domiciliaria por triatomineos. Biomedica 13 (Suppl 1): 124–125.
Holdridge L, 1978. Ecología: Basada en zonas de vida. Traducido al español por E. Jiménez Saa. San José, Costa Rica: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación Para la Agricultura, 1–216.
Lent H, Wygodzinsky P, 1979. Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas disease. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 163: 125–516.
Souto RP, Fernandes O, Macedo AM, Campbell DA, Zingales B, 1996. DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 83: 141–152.
Sturm NR, Degrave W, Morel C, Simpson L, 1989. Sensitive detection and schizodeme classification of Trypanosoma cruzi cells by amplification of kinetoplast minicircle DNA sequences: use in diagnosis of Chagas' disease. Mol Biochem Parasitol 33: 205–214.
Guhl F, Restrepo M, Angulo VM, Antunes CM, Campbell-Lendrum D, Davies C, 2005. Lessons from a national survey of Chagas disease transmission risk in Colombia. Trends Parasitol 21: 259–262.
Becerril-Flores M, Rangel-Flores E, Imbert-Palafox J, Gómez-Gómez J, Figueroa Gutiérrez A, 2007. Human infection and risk of transmission of Chagas disease in Hidalgo state, México. Am J Trop Med Hyg 76: 318–323.
Guevara A, Garzón E, Bowen C, Córdova X, Gómez E, Ouaissi A, 2005. High infection rates of Triatoma dimidiata are associated with low levels of Trypanosoma cruzi seroprevalence in Pedro Carbo, Ecuador. Use of a tc24 gene-based PCR approach. Parasite 12: 65–68.
Zeledon R, Zuñiga A, Swartzwelder J, 1969. The camouflage of Triatoma dimidiate and the epidemiology of Chagas disease in Costa Rica. Bol Chil Parasitol 24: 106–108.
Nakagawa J, Cordon-Rosales C, Juarez J, Itzep C, Nonami T, 2003. Impact of residual spraying on Rhodnius prolixus and Triatoma dimidiata in the department of Zacapa in Guatemala. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 98: 277–281.
Tabaru Y, Monroy C, Rodas A, Mejía M, Rosales R, 1999. The geographical distribution of vectors of Chagas disease and population at risk of infestation in Guatemala. Med Entomol Zool 50: 3–8.
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