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Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniosis in dogs from a rural community in northeastern Brazil by Filipe Dantas-Torres; Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti; Luciana A. Figueredo; Marcela F. Melo; Fernando J. da Silva; Amílton L. da Silva; Ericka L. Almeida; Sinval P. Brandão-Filho is a Immunology and Microbiology article available to read on EtoBox.
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A community-based epidemiological study was carried out in a rural area in northeastern Brazil, where visceral leishmaniasis is endemic, but the primary vector Lutzomyia longipalpis has never been found. Forty-one dogs were screened by an indirect immunofluorescence antibody test (IFAT) for the presence of anti-Leishmania antibodies and 12 (29.3%) of them were positive. One of the IFAT-positive dogs was also positive for Leishmania amastigotes in bone marrow cytology and for Leishmania infantum by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on blood. One IFAT-negative dog was positive for L. infantum by PCR on bone marrow and other for Leishmania amastigotes in skin stained-smears. When tested for L. braziliensis by PCR, 20 dogs were positive. Considering all diagnostic tests, the estimated prevalence of Leishmania spp. infection in the studied rural dog population was 58.5%. There was no significant difference in IFAT-positivity in relation to age, gender, and clinical status of the dogs. When tested for L. infantum by real-time PCR, 20 ticks collected from IFAT-positive dogs were all negative. This study shows a high level of exposure to Leishmania spp. infection in dogs from a rur
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- Author
- Filipe Dantas-Torres; Milena de Paiva-Cavalcanti; Luciana A. Figueredo; Marcela F. Melo; Fernando J. da Silva; Amílton L. da Silva; Ericka L. Almeida; Sinval P. Brandão-Filho
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0304-4017)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)