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Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut: Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Phlebotomine sand flies transmit the haemoflagellate Leishmania, the causative agent of human leishmaniasis. The Leishmania promastigotes are confined to the gut lumen and are exposed to the gut microbiota within female sand flies.
Mauricio RV Sant’Anna, Hector Diaz-Albiter, Kelsilândia Aguiar-Martins, Waleed S Al Salem, Reginaldo R Cavalcante, Viv M Dillon, Paul A Bates, Fernando A Genta, Rod J Dillon   +8 more
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Leishmania sp. Amastigotes Identification in Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor [PDF]

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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Investigation of Chlamydia sp., Morbillivirus sp., Parvovirus sp., Leishmania sp. and Alphacoronavirus sp. in captive giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2022
This research aimed to investigate the occurrence of Chlamydia sp., Morbillivirus sp., Parvovirus sp., Leishmania sp. and Alphacoronavirus sp. in captive giant anteaters.
H.C.C.P. Tessari, G.R. Paludo, M.C. Scalon, J.M.M. Silva, L.Q.L. Hirano   +4 more
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Infecção natural de Lutzomyia longipalpis por Leishmania sp. em Teresina, Piauí, Brasil Natural infection of Lutzomyia longipalpis by Leishmania sp. in Teresina, Piauí State, Brazil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007
No Brasil, o controle do vetor Lutzomyia longipalpis é uma das principais estratégias utilizadas para limitar a expansão da leishmaniose visceral americana.
Jackellyne Geórgia Dutra e Silva, Guilherme L. Werneck, Maria do Socorro Pires e Cruz, Carlos Henrique Nery Costa, Ivete Lopes de Mendonça   +4 more
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First molecular detection of Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum chagasi in a domestic cat (Felis catus) from an urban area in eastern Amazon [PDF]

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2023
Background: Domestic cats have been implicated as accidental hosts of Leishmania sp. However, in recent years, the recurrent description of new cases in endemic and nonendemic areas draw attention to the potential epidemiological role of cats as ...
Délia Cristina Figueira Aguiar, Daniela de Nazaré dos Santos Nascimento, Dinaiara Fragoso Penner, Brena do Socorro Lima de Castro, Rodrigo Rodrigues Virgolino, Alan Marcel Pamplona Neves, Andrei dos Santos Siqueira, Evonnildo Costa Gonçalves   +7 more
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Forecasting temporal dynamics of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Northeast Brazil. [PDF]

, 2014
IntroductionCutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a vector-borne disease of increasing importance in northeastern Brazil. It is known that sandflies, which spread the causative parasites, have weather-dependent population dynamics.
Carvalho, Edgar M, Glesby, Marshall J, Jirmanus, Lara, Júnior, Nivison Nery, Ko, Albert I, Lewnard, Joseph A, Machado, Paulo R, Schriefer, Albert, Weinberger, Daniel M   +8 more
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IMUNOMARCAÇÃO DE Leishmania sp. E ASPECTOS HISTOLÓGICOS NA TERCEIRA PÁLPEBRA DE CÃES NATURALMENTE INFECTADOS POR Leishmania (leishmania) chagasi [PDF]

Ciência Animal Brasileira, 2015
Resumo A leishmaniose visceral canina (LVC) é uma doença que envolve lesões multissistêmicas e, dentre os vários tecidos acometidos, a terceira pálpebra está frequentemente envolvida. Este anexo ocular tem sido alvo de estudo tanto para a elucidação da patogênese da doença quanto para o avanço diagnóstico.
Lima, Aline Maria Vasconcelos, Santos, Adriana da Silva, Faleiro, Mariana B. Rodrigues, Moura, Veridiana Maria B. Dignani de, Brito, Fábio Luiz da Cunha, Brito, Luiz Augusto Batista   +5 more
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Evaluation of the Anti Chagas "PF" Vaccine Against two Strains of Leishmania sp. in Hamsters () [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 1976
Amastigotes of two strains of Leishmania sp. were innoculated into golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) 8 and 15 days after innoculation with the anti-chagas "PF" vaccine.
Jorge R. Arias, Humberto Menezes, Rui A. de Freitas   +2 more
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Leishmania (Leishmania)hertigi in a porcupine (Coendou sp.) found in Brasília, Federal District, Brazil [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2013
Studies report the occurrence of Leishmania(Leishmania) hertigi in northern states of Brazil. In the present investigation, we describe the isolation ofL. (L.) hertigi from a porcupine (Coendou sp.) found in Brasília, Federal District, center-west region of Brazil.
Silva, Denise Amaro da, Madeira, Maria de Fatima, Barbosa Filho, Carlos José Lima, Schubach, Edvar Yuri Paheco, Barros, Juliana Helena da Silva, Figueiredo, Fabiano Borges   +5 more
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Dataset on recombinant expression of an ancient chitinase gene from different species of Leishmania parasites in bacteria and in Spodoptera frugiperda cells using baculovirus

Data in Brief, 2020
The data presented here is related to negative results obtained with the recombinant expression of chitinase from four species of Leishmania parasites in two expression systems, performed in order to investigate the molecular characteristics of the ...
Aline Diniz Cabral, Felipe Baena Garcia, Rodrigo Buzinaro Suzuki, Tanil Lacerda Góis Filho, Renata Torres da Costa, Ligia Marinho Pereira Vasconcelos, Edmar Silva Santos, Márcia Aparecida Sperança   +7 more
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