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Persistent Infections by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
Here we review the phenomenon of persistency in Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infections. In other Leishmania species where appropriate animal models exist, considerable advances in the understanding of basic immunologic mechanisms of persistency ...
José Luis Ramírez, Palmira Guevara
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Development of Colombian isolates of Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis, Le. (V.) guyanensis and Le. (V.) braziliensis in the sandfly Lutzomyia intermedia (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) under experimental conditions

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1993
The development of Colombian Leishmania species of the subgenus Viannia in Lutzomyia intermedia was similar to that observed with Brazilian Le. (V.) braziliensis: colonization of the pylorus by paramastigotes; promastigotes in the midgut and massive ...
Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel, Bruno L. Travi, André F. Barbosa, James Montoya   +3 more
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Identificação de espécies de Leishmania isoladas de casos humanos em Mato Grosso do Sul por meio da reação em cadeia da polimerase Identification of Leishmania species isolated in human cases in Mato Grosso do Sul, by means of the polymerase chain reaction

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2009
As leishmanioses são zoonoses endêmicas em Mato Grosso do Sul e têm por agentes etiológicos nessa região Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi, Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis e Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis.
Manoel Sebastião da Costa Lima Junior, Renato Andreotti, Maria Elizabeth Moraes Cavalheiros Dorval, Elisa Teruya Oshiro, Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira, Maria de Fatima Cepa Matos   +5 more
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Genome Analysis of Triploid Hybrid Leishmania Parasite from the Neotropics

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
We discovered a hybrid Leishmania parasite in Costa Rica that is genetically similar to hybrids from Panama. Genome analyses demonstrated the hybrid is triploid and identified L. braziliensis and L. guyanensis–related strains as parents.
Frederik Van den Broeck, Senne Heeren, Ilse Maes, Mandy Sanders, James A. Cotton, Elisa Cupolillo, Eugenia Alvarez, Lineth Garcia, Maureen Tasia, Alice Marneffe, Jean-Claude Dujardin, Gert Van der Auwera   +11 more
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Nota sobre leishmaniose canina no noroeste do Estado do Paraná, sul do Brasil Leishmaniasis in dogs in southern Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 1993
Em área endêmica de leishmaniose tegumentar americana no Município de Jussara, Estado do Paraná, Brasil, detectaram-se três cães domésticos infectados por Leishmania (Viannia) brasiliensis.In an American cutaneous leishmaniasis endemic area in Jussara ...
Maria Valdrinez Campana Lonardoni, Ueslei Teodoro, Sandra Mara Alessi Aristides Arraes, Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira, Dennis Armando Bertolini, Edna A.Y. Ishikawa, Jeffrey J. Shaw   +6 more
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in northeastern Brazil: a critical appraisal of studies conducted in State of Pernambuco

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2012
American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is a complex disease with clinical and epidemiological features that may vary from region to region. In fact, at least seven different Leishmania species, including Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, Leishmania ...
Maria Edileuza Felinto de Brito, Maria Sandra Andrade, Filipe Dantas-Torres, Eduardo Henrique Gomes Rodrigues, Milena de Paiva Cavalcanti, Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida, Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho   +6 more
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Etiology of cutaneous leishmaniasis and anthropophilic vectors in Juruti, Pará State, Brazil Etiologia da leishmaniose cutânea e vetores antropofílicos em Juruti, Estado do Pará, Brasil

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2009
In a preliminary study in Juruti, a mining municipality in western Pará State, Brazil, 12 out of 21 patients suspected of presenting cutaneous leishmaniasis showed positive PCR (SSUrDNA and G6PD): Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis (9/12; 75%) and L. (V.)
Lourdes Maria Garcez, Daniela Cristina Soares, Anadeiva Portela Chagas, Gilberto César Rodrigues de Souza, Jefferson Francisco Correia Miranda, Habib Fraiha, Lucile Maria Flöeter-Winter, Heloísa Marceliano Nunes, Ricardo Andrade Zampiere, Jeffrey Jon Shaw   +9 more
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Further insights into the eco-epidemiology of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Belem metropolitan region, Pará State, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION: In the Belém Metropolitan Region (BMR), Pará State, Brazil, American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is endemic; however, very little is known regarding its causative agents.
Lucas Pantoja Gonçalves, Thiago Vasconcelos dos Santos, Marliane Batista Campos, Luciana Vieira do Rêgo Lima, Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa, Fernando Tobias Silveira, Patrícia Karla Santos Ramos   +6 more
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Can equids be a reservoir of Leishmania braziliensis in endemic areas?

PLoS ONE, 2014
In this study, we detected Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis infection in equids living in endemic regions of cutaneous leishmaniasis. To determine the role of these animals in the Leishmania cycle, we used two approaches: serological and molecular ...
Jessé Henrique Truppel, Flavio Otomura, Ueslei Teodoro, Rubens Massafera, Magda Clara Vieira da Costa-Ribeiro, Carolina Motter Catarino, Luana Dalagrana, Maria Eugênia Moreira Costa Ferreira, Vanete Thomaz-Soccol   +8 more
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Human cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in Santiago del Estero, Argentina: identification of parasites by monoclonal antibodies and isoenzymes Leishmaniose cutânea humana causada por Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis na Província de Santiago del Estero, Argentina: identificação dos parasitas por anticorpos monoclonais e isoenzimas

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1996
Diagnostic and parasite characterization and identification studies were carried out in human patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions in Santiago del Estero, Northern Province of Argentina.
C.A. Cuba Cuba, C.O. Torno, O. Ledesma, E. Visciarelli, S. Garcia, M.I. Prat, R. Costamagna, L. Barbieri, D.A. Evans   +8 more
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