Table 5.
Characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi using the amplification of cox2, of the mini-exon intergenic spacer (SL-IL) and polymorphism of the D7 divergent domain of the gene 24αrDNA-LSU rDNA, Tauá municipality, Ceará, Brazil, 2009 to 2015
| Period | Place of capture | Ecotope | Associated species | No. of samples | TcI | TcII | TcIII |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Peridomicile | Bricks | T. brasiliensis | 6 | – | 6 | – |
| Stones | T. brasiliensis | 1 | – | 1 | – | ||
| Firewood | T. brasiliensis | 5 | 5 | – | – | ||
| Wild | Stones | T. brasiliensis | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | |
| n | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | |||
| August 2009 | Wild | Stones | T. brasiliensis | 6 | – | 6 | – |
| n | 6 | – | 6 | 0 | |||
| March 2010 | Intradomicile | Intradomicile | T. brasiliensis | 2 | 1 | – | 1 |
| Peridomicile | Roofing tiles | T. brasiliensis | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | |
| Sheepfold | T. brasiliensis | 1 | 1 | – | – | ||
| Chicken coop | T. brasiliensis | 2 | – | 2 | – | ||
| Wild | Stones | Monodelphis domestica a | 1 | – | – | 1 | |
| n | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |||
| October 2010 | Intradomicile | Intradomicile | T. brasiliensis | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Peridomicile | Pigsty | T. brasiliensis | 4 | 4 | – | – | |
| Roofing tiles | T. brasiliensis | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | ||
| n | 8 | 7 | 1 | – | |||
| August 2015 | Intradomicile | Intradomicile | T. brasiliensis | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Peridomicile | Chicken coop | T. pseudomaculata | 1 | – | 1 | – | |
| Roofing tiles | T. brasiliensis | 2 | 2 | – | – | ||
| Firewood | T. brasiliensis | 1 | 1 | – | – | ||
| Wild | Stones | T. brasiliensis | 3 | - | - | 3 | |
| n | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| N | 44 | 18 | 19 | 7 |
aBezerra et al. [47]
Abbreviations: TcI T. cruzi I, TcII T. cruzi II, TcIII T. cruzi III, n, subtotal: N, total