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Heterogeneities in leishmania infantum infection : using skin parasite burdens to identify highly infectious dogs [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The relationships between heterogeneities in host infection and infectiousness (transmission to arthropod vectors) can provide important insights for disease management.
A Mohammadiha, A Mohammadiha, ANS Maia-Elkhoury, AP da Costa-Val, AP Galvani, BL Travi, BLA Vercosa, C Carson, C Fraser, C Mary, C Mary, CDL Oliveira, CHN Costa, CHN Costa, Connor Carson, DJ Shaw, DW Dowdy, EM Michalsky, GA Soper, IFGd Amorim, JO Lloyd-Smith, KJ Esch, KTD Eames, L Dipineto, L Manna, L Manna, L Matthews, Leo Calvo-Bado, LHdS Marques, LLH Lau, Lourdes M. Garcez, LVR Lima, M Chase-Topping, Marleen Boelaert, MEJ Woolhouse, O Courtenay, O Courtenay, O Courtenay, O Francino, Orin Courtenay, PF Quaresma, R Lainson, R Molina, R Molina, R Verin, RA Stein, RB Gomes, RC Giunchetti, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RJ Quinnell, RM Anderson, RM May, Rupert J. Quinnell, S Bossolasco, SdA Ferreira   +56 more
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Human visceral leishmaniasis and relationship with vector and canine control measures

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2018
OBJECTIVE Estimate the coverage of control measures of visceral leishmaniasis and relate them with the occurrence of human visceral leishmaniasis in endemic urban area.
Danielle Nunes Carneiro Castro Costa, Patricia Marques Moralejo Bermudi, Lilian Aparecida Colebrusco Rodas, Caris Maroni Nunes, Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto, José Eduardo Tolezano, Rafael Silva Cipriano, Graziela Cândido Diniz Cardoso, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto   +9 more
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Leishmaniasis: new approaches to disease control. [PDF]

, 2003
The leishmaniases afflict the world's poorest populations. Among the two million new cases each year in the 88 countries where the disease is endemic (fig 1), it is estimated that 80% earn less than $2 a day.
Croft, Simon L, Davies, Clive R, Kaye, Paul, Sundar, Shyam   +3 more
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Autochthonous canine leishmaniasis in Romania: neglected or (re)emerging?

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Canine leishmaniasis is a vector-borne zoonotic disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania infantum. In Romania between 1955 and 2013, no cases of human autochthonous visceral leishmaniasis were reported.
Viorica Mircean, Mirabela Oana Dumitrache, Mircea Mircean, Pompei Bolfa, Adriana Györke, Andrei Daniel Mihalca   +5 more
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Predicting the distribution of canine leishmaniasis in western Europe based on environmental variables. [PDF]

, 2011
The domestic dog is the reservoir host of Leishmania infantum, the causative agent of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis endemic in Mediterranean Europe. Targeted control requires predictive risk maps of canine leishmaniasis (CanL), which are now explored ...
ADRIAN MYLNE, ANA O. FRANCO, CARLOS ALVES PIRES, CLIVE R. DAVIES, CRISTINA BALLART, FRANCISCO MORILLAS-MÁRQUEZ, Hastie, JEAN-PIERRE DEDET, JONATHAN COX, LUIGI GRADONI, MARIA ODETE AFONSO, MARINA GRAMICCIA, MONTSERRAT GÁLLEGO, PAUL D. READY, Rabe-Hesketh, Ready, Ribeiro, RICARDO MOLINA, Rioux, Rogers, ROSA GÁLVEZ, SERGIO BARÓN-LÓPEZ   +21 more
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Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Sicily [PDF]

Military Medicine, 2000
The Sicilian province of Catania is an active foci for human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Mediterranean area. Approximately 10 to 15 cases of VL are diagnosed via hospital admissions each year in this community. Recently, an increase in VL case reporting by Sicilian physicians was noted, with 38 and 37 VL cases in 1996 and 1997, respectively ...
G R, Orndorff, B A, Cooper, W, Smith, J R, Ryan   +3 more
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Epidemiological aspects of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in State of Alagoas, Northeast, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018
Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL), caused by protozoans of the genus Leishmania, it is a worldwide of great importance disease. In the northeast region of Brazil, the state of Alagoas has an endemic status for ZVL.
M. A. N. Rocha, T. J. Matos-Rocha, C. M. B. Ribeiro, S. R. O. Abreu   +3 more
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Ecology of phlebotomine sand flies in the rural community of Mont Rolland (Thiès region, Senegal): area of transmission of canine leishmaniasis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
BACKGROUND: Different epidemiological studies previously indicated that canine leishmaniasis is present in the region of Thiès (Senegal). However, the risks to human health, the transmission cycle and particularly the implicated vectors are unknown ...
Massila W Senghor, Malick N Faye, Babacar Faye, Karamoko Diarra, Eric Elguero, Oumar Gaye, Anne-Laure Bañuls, Abdoul A Niang   +7 more
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Insights on adaptive and innate immunity in canine leishmaniosis [PDF]

, 2016
Canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is caused by the parasite Leishmania infantum and is a systemic disease, which can present with variable clinical signs, and clinicopathological abnormalities.
Abi Abdallah, Alexander, Catchpole, DAMER P. BLAKE, de Souza Carmo, Green, Kensil, LAIA SOLANO-GALLEGO, Lopez, Margarito, Ordeix, Pinelli, Pitta, Quinnell, Sadick, Sanchez, SHAZIA HOSEIN, Silva, Vouldoukis, Wakelin   +19 more
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Leishmania sp. Amastigotes Identification in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor

Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine, 2014
Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease with Leishmania chagasi being the etiological agent of canine visceral leishmaniasis in South America. Canine venereal tumor is a transplantable round cell tumor of histiocytic origin which is mostly observed in ...
Vinicius Soares Carreira, Heitor Flávio Ferrari, Ingeborg Maria Langohr, Charles Mackenzie, Luiz Carlos Montezzo, Edson Taira, Lucile Maria Floeter-Winter, Maria Cecília Rui Luvizotto   +7 more
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