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Infecção natural de Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae) por Leishmania infantum chagasi em flebotomíneos capturados no município de Janaúba, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUÇÃO: A leishmaniose visceral tem sido notificada em quase todos os estados do Brasil, e principalmente no norte de Minas Gerais, onde a doença é endêmica. Este estudo visou detectar a infecção natural de Lutzomyia longipalpis e identificar através
Érika Monteiro Michalsky, Karla de Sena Guedes, Fabiana de Oliveira Lara e Silva, João Carlos França-Silva, Consuelo Latorre Fortes Dias, Ricardo Andrade Barata, Edelberto Santos Dias   +6 more
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Visceral Leishmaniasis During Pregnancy: A Case Report

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
Visceral leishmaniasis is a life-threatening disease endemic in tropical and subtropical regions and in the Mediterranean basin. Two species (Leishmania infantum/chagasi and Leishmania donovani) with different host reservoirs are responsible for visceral
Spinello Antinori, Laura Milazzo, Alessandra Behring, Beatrice Caloni, Luca Meroni   +4 more
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Detection of Leishmania infantum DNA in the non-parasitized lung of dogs with visceral leishmaniasis

BMC Veterinary Research, 2018
Background Despite the very low or absent parasitism in the lungs, the interstitial pneumonitis is a common lesion found in humans and dogs with visceral leishmaniasis.
Ricardo Goncalves, Soraia Oliveira Silva, Gregório Guilherme de Almeida, Carolina Carvalho de Souza, Wagner Luiz Tafuri, M. Norma Melo   +5 more
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The gene expression of Leishmania infantum chagasi inside Lutzomyia longipalpis, the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Leishmania infantum chagasi is the causative agent and Lutzomyia longipalpis is the main vector of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas. We investigated the expression of Leishmania genes within L. longipalpis after artificial infection.
Thais Lemos-Silva, Erich Loza Telleria, Yara Maria Traub-Csekö   +2 more
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Characterization of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in visceral leishmaniasis associated with hiv co-infection in Northeastern Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2017
Visceral leishmaniasis, associated with HIV/AIDS coinfection, is becoming a more aggressive disease, complicating an accurate prognosis. A 21-year-old HIV-positive female presenting with clinical features of visceral leishmaniasis was enrolled in this ...
Elaine Cristina Bomfim de Lima, Walter Lins Barbosa Júnior, Maria Edileuza Felinto de Brito, Fábio Lopes de Melo, Sinval Pinto Brandão Filho, Zulma Maria de Medeiros   +5 more
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Unusual Clinical Manifestations of Leishmania (L.) infantum chagasi in an HIV-coinfected Patient and the Relevance of ITS1-PCR-RFLP: A Case Report

Iranian Journal of Parasitology, 2018
Patients coinfected with Leishmania/HIV can develop atypical forms of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), making it indispensable to identify the etiological agent. We are presenting a postmortemspecie definition by ITS1-PCR-RFLP in a larynx tissue of a patient
De Godoy NATALIA SOUZA DE, Aiello VERA DEMARCHI, de Souza REGINA MAIA, Okay THELMA, Braz LUCIA MARIA ALMEIDA   +4 more
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Estudo fitoquímico e atividades leishmanicida, anticolinestarásica e antioxidante de extratos de Annona glabra L. (araticum panã)

Revista de Ciências Farmacêuticas Básica e Aplicada, 2015
O objetivo deste estudo foi investigar as principais classes de compostos químicos presentes em Annona grabra L. (Araticum panã), e avaliar o seu potencial biológico analisando suas atividades antioxidante, antiacetilcolinesterase e leishmanicida.
Antonio Adailson de Sousa Silva, Joana Barros Alexandre, Larissa Guerra Vieira, Suliane Praciano Rodrigues, Maria José Cajazeiras Falcão, Selene Maia Morais   +5 more
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Leishmania (infantum) chagasi in canine urinary sediment

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) is difficult to diagnosis, mainly due to the presence of asymptomatic animals, the diversity of clinical symptoms and the difficulty in obtaining diagnostic evidence of high sensitivity and specificity.
Ivete Lopes de Mendonça, Joilson Ferreira Batista, Leucio Camara Alves   +2 more
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Clinical profile of naturally infected dogs from an endemic area for “Leishmania chagasi” (infantum) in Bahia State, Brazil Quadro clínico de cães infectados naturalmente por Leishmania chagasi em uma área endêmica do estado da Bahia, Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Saúde e Produção Animal, 2007
The purpose of this study was to report a description of the clinical profile of naturally infected dogs from an endemic area for Leishmania chagasi (infantum)-caused visceral leishmaniosis in Brazil, where a wide range of clinical signs are attributed ...
Fred da Silva Julião, Rafael Lyra Gaspar da Costa, Diana Vianna Bittencourt, Alisson Azevedo Pinheiro, Silvana Ornelas Santos, Paulo Henrique Palis Aguiar, Washington Luis Conrado dos Santos, Stella Maria Barrouin Melo   +7 more
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Nephrin gene expression in chronic kidney disease of dogs with Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi. [PDF]

Braz J Infect Dis, 2016
Torres Mde M, Chitarra CS, Nakazato L, Almeida AB, Sousa VR.   +4 more
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