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IL‐12 and IFN‐γ in Response to Leishmania Infantum Antigens in Felines From an Endemic Area for Visceral Leishmaniasis

Parasite Immunology, Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Visceral leishmaniasis is a potentially fatal zoonosis with an increasing incidence. Most infected felines present the disease in its subclinical form and demonstrate greater resistance to parasitemia than dogs. However, the role of cellular immunity in felines is still poorly understood. This study measured serum levels of interleukin (IL)‐12
João Victor Lé Lode, Lucas Takeshi Siqueira Ito, Gisele Mitsue Umino, Valéria Marçal Felix de Lima   +3 more
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Inflammatory response, parasite load and AgNOR expression in ear skin of symptomatic and asymptomatic Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi infected dogs

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2011
The skin has an important role in the transmission of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) as the infection pathway in dogs. To better characterize the inflammatory response of intact skin in VL, sixty infected dogs (30 symptomatic and 30 asymptomatic) and six ...
Verçosa BLA, Borges ACJ, Mendes FJM, Costa MLS, Pereira NB, Melo MN, Mendonça IL, Costa FAL, Vasconcelos AC   +8 more
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Leishmaniose visceral canina em Maricá, Estado do Rio de Janeiro: relato do primeiro caso autóctone Canine visceral leishmaniasis in Maricá, State of Rio de Janeiro: first report of an autochthonous case

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
Leishmaniose visceral é uma zoonose de importância em Saúde Pública, onde os cães representam um dos maiores problemas. Este trabalho visa relatar o primeiro caso autóctone da leishmaniose visceral canina no município de Maricá, fornecendo elementos ...
Cíntia Cristiane de Paula, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Rodrigo Caldas Menezes, Eliame Mouta-Confort, Alessandra Bogio, Maria de Fátima Madeira   +5 more
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A real-time ITS1-PCR based method in the diagnosis and species identification of Leishmania parasite from human and dog clinical samples in Turkey.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by L. infantum and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) caused by L. tropica and L. infantum have been reported in Turkey. L.
Seray Ozensoy Toz, Gulnaz Culha, Fadile Yıldız Zeyrek, Hatice Ertabaklar, M Ziya Alkan, Aslı Tetik Vardarlı, Cumhur Gunduz, Yusuf Ozbel   +7 more
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Epidemiological aspects of Leishmaniasis in the Pantanal region of Mato Grosso

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by the protozoan Leishmania parasite that is disseminated by some species of sandflies and hosted by a variety of reservoirs.
Veruska Nogueira de Brito, Álvaro Felipe de Lima Ruy Dias, Valéria Régia Franco Sousa   +2 more
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Epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis through spatial analysis, in Belo Horizonte municipality, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2006
The geographic information system approach has permitted integration between demographic, socio-economic and environmental data, providing correlation between information from several data banks.
Carina Margonari, Christian Rezende Freitas, Rosemary Campos Ribeiro, Ana Clara Mourão Moura, Marcos Timbó, Adriano Heckert Gripp, José Eduardo Pessanha, Edelberto Santos Dias   +7 more
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Avaliação da leishmaniose visceral canina em Poxoréo, Estado do Mato Grosso, Brazil Canine visceral leishmaniasis evaluation in Poxoréo, Mato Grosso State, Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2008
O cão doméstico desempenha importante papel como reservatório na transmissão da leishmaniose visceral ao homem, zoonose de grande importância em saúde pública.
Márcia Ávila A. de Azevedo, Ana Karina K. Dias, Henrique B. de Paula, Silvia Helena V. Perri, Cáris M. Nunes   +4 more
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One Health: The global challenge of epidemic and endemic leishmaniasis

Parasites & Vectors, 2011
'One Health' proposes the unification of medical and veterinary sciences with the establishment of collaborative ventures in clinical care, surveillance and control of cross-species disease, education, and research into disease pathogenesis, diagnosis ...
Day Michael J, Palatnik-de-Sousa Clarisa B   +1 more
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Vaccines for canine leishmaniasis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2012
Leishmaniasis is the third most important vector-borne disease worldwide. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a severe and frequently lethal protozoan disease of increasing incidence and severity due to infected human and dog migration, new geographical ...
Clarisa B. Palatnik-De-Sousa
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Epidemiologic surveillance of canine visceral leishmaniasis in the municipality of Recife, Pernambuco

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2005
This paper describes an epidemiologic investigation carried out in Imbiribeira district, where a canine visceral leishmaniasis case was recorded. Despite the absence of seropositive dogs and sand flies, these findings are not sufficient to discard the ...
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Maria Aparecida da Gloria Faustino, Osmar Cavalcanti da Costa Lima, Ridelane Veiga Acioli   +3 more
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