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First autochthonous case of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Rondônia, Brazil, a region with no history of visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2018
This report describes the first autochthonous case of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Rondônia, northern Brazil. A canine resident of the municipality of Cacoal, with clinical signs and symptoms of visceral leishmaniasis, was treated by a veterinarian ...
Cristian José da Silva, Cristiane Batista Mattos, Kátia Paula Felipin, Hélen Paula de Jesus Silva, Lilian Motta Cantanhêde, Renato Porrozzi, Jansen Fernandes Medeiros, Ricardo de Godoi Mattos Ferreira   +7 more
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Autochthonous Outbreak and Expansion of Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis, Uruguay [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
We report an outbreak of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Uruguay. Blood specimens from 11/45 dogs tested positive for Leishmania spp. Specimens of Lutzomyia longipalpis sand flies were captured; typing revealed Leishmania infantum. Our findings document
Dinora Satragno, Paula Faral-Tello, Bruno Canneva, Lorenzo Verger, Alejandra Lozano, Edgardo Vitale, Gonzalo Greif, Carlos Soto, Carlos Robello, Yester Basmadjián   +9 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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Cost-effectiveness of a canine visceral leishmaniasis control program in Brazil based on insecticide-impregnated collars. [PDF]

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop, 2020
INTRODUCTION: The use of insecticide-impregnated dog collars is a potentially useful tool for the control of visceral leishmaniasis. The objective of the present study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of a program based on insecticide ...
Assis TM, Azeredo-da-Silva ALF, Cota G, Rocha MF, Werneck GL.   +4 more
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Interstitial pneumonitis in canine visceral leishmaniasis [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1986
Forty-one naturally infected dogs with visceral leishmaniasis from an urban area of Corumbá (Mato Grosso do Sul-BRAZIL) were studied and three types of lung involvement due to visceral leishmaniasis were characterized; a cellular, a cellular-fibrotic and a fibrotic type. These types seem to represent a sequential evolutive proce'as.
Duarte, M. I. S., Laurenti, M. D., Nunes, V. L. Brandão, Rego Jr., A. F., Oshiro, E. T., Corbett, C. E. P.   +5 more
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Characterization of a municipality as free of canine visceral leishmaniasis in the context of One Health

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2021
Dogs are the main urban reservoir of Leishmania infantum, the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), which is transmitted by sand flies. In the state of Paraná, the first detection of a positive dog for VL was in 2014, this year Paraná lost free
Silvia Cristina Osaki, Ricardo Babinski Bregonde, Vinicius Dahm, Priscila Pereira, Claudomiro Postai, Monique Paiva de Campos, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo   +6 more
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Splenic Nodules: Canine Visceral leishmaniasis? [PDF]

Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 2021
Background: Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is a parasitic disease of high lethality caused by the protozoan Leishmania infantum in Brazil and is often related to splenomegaly. However, splenic nodules in dogs, although frequent, have not previously been reported as associated with CVL, but with neoplastic diseases.
de Oliveira, Gilsan Aparecida, Sarmento, Vitória Aline Santos, Martins Bastos, Isabelle Vanderlei, de Araújo, Alberon Ribeiro, de Mendonça, Lígia Buzzá Roo, Feitosa, Ana Paula Sampaio, Brayner, Fábio André, Alves, Luiz Carlos   +7 more
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Seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis in southeast of Iran [PDF]

Journal of Parasitic Diseases, 2013
Visceral leishmaniasis is an endemic disease in many parts of Iran and infected dogs constitute the main domestic reservoirs that play a key role in transmission to humans. The objective of this study was to assess the seroprevalence of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in southeast of Iran.
Mostafavi, Mahshid, Akhtardanesh, Baharak, Sharifi, Iraj, Kakooei, Sina, Khedri, Javad, Bamorovat, Mehdi   +5 more
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Epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniasis in a vulnerable region in Brazil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2021
Abstract Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a neglected and endemic zoonosis that occurs throughout Brazil; nevertheless, few studies have focused on the early detection of the disease. The municipality of Ourinhos is a non-receptive, silent and vulnerable area for VL, where the seroprevalence of this disease has so far not been investigated.
Douglas Aparecido da Silva, Natália Camila Minucci Bonatto, Gabriela Lovizutto Venturin, Larissa Martins Melo, Paula Lima de Oliveira, Letícia Ramos Costa, Maria Rachel Melo Bosculo, Luiz Daniel de Barros, Valéria Marçal Felix de Lima, Breno Fernando Martins de Almeida   +9 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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