First Iberoamerican Workshop on Chagas Disease, Triatomine vectors, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Triatoma virus

Lisboa, 13 al 16 de Setiembre de 2010

Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais (CMDT) Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT) Rua da Junqueira 100, Lisboa - Portugal.

Workshop Objectives:

To enlarge the CYTED-RedTrV platform for knowledge exchange among participants from Latin America and Europe.
To inform interested stakeholders about the current Chagas disease burden and control strategies.
To discuss current and future methods and technologies oriented to control triatomines and other insect vectors.
To inform stakeholders about European and Latin American perspectives, policies and legislation on sustainability aspects of biopesticedes production.
To get feedback from associations, industry sector, and research organizations about using Triatoma virus as biological control agent.
To assess research needs and cooperation opportunities between scientists working on human and animal trypanosomyasis, insect vectors, and viruses.

Tuesday, September 14

Tiatomine vectors: Biology, phyhlogeny, and geographical distribution.

Chairwoman: Paz María Salazar (UNAM, México) Speakers:

Antonieta Rojas de Arias (CEDIC, Paraguay) - Baited Sensors as Detection Tools of Triatoma infestans Intradomiciliary Reinfestation in Indigenous Communities of the Paraguayan Chaco.

PDF File with all the program here