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. 2018 Apr 24:5:180071.
doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.71.

DataTri, a database of American triatomine species occurrence

Soledad Ceccarelli  1 , Agustín Balsalobre  1 , Paula Medone  1   2 , María Eugenia Cano  1 , Rodrigo Gurgel Gonçalves  3 , Dora Feliciangeli  1 , Darío Vezzani  4 , Cristina Wisnivesky-Colli  5 , David E Gorla  6 , Gerardo A Marti  1 , Jorge E Rabinovich  1
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DataTri, a database of American triatomine species occurrence

Soledad Ceccarelli et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, is transmitted to mammals - including humans - by insect vectors of the subfamily Triatominae. We present the results of a compilation of triatomine occurrence and complementary ecological data that represents the most complete, integrated and updated database (DataTri) available on triatomine species at a continental scale. This database was assembled by collecting the records of triatomine species published from 1904 to 2017, spanning all American countries with triatomine presence. A total of 21815 georeferenced records were obtained from published literature, personal fieldwork and data provided by colleagues. The data compiled includes 24 American countries, 14 genera and 135 species. From a taxonomic perspective, 67.33% of the records correspond to the genus Triatoma, 20.81% to Panstrongylus, 9.01% to Rhodnius and the remaining 2.85% are distributed among the other 11 triatomine genera. We encourage using DataTri information in various areas, especially to improve knowledge of the geographical distribution of triatomine species and its variations in time.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Schematic overview of data compilation, including information sources used and data compilation processes.
N=number of records. Steps a-g are described in the Methods section. Step h is described in the Technical Validation section.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Frequency distribution of the number of records per year.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Geographic distribution of triatomine occurrence data.
Each color represents the dataset of all species in DataTri from each country.
Figure 4
Figure 4. Frequency distribution of triatomine species amount per number of records.
Numbers of species represented by each interval is indicated above each column.
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