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Forecasting temporal dynamics of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Northeast Brazil. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +8 more
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Flebotomíneos de Timóteo, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil (Diptera: Psychodidae) Sand flies in Timóteo, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Diptera: Psychodidae)

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 1997
Casos esporádicos de leishmaniose tegumentar têm ocorrido no Município de Timóteo, Minas Gerais, basicamente na população rural. Para conhecer a fauna de flebotomíneos da região, foram instaladas sete armadilhas luminosas de New Jersey na cidade, em sete
José Dilermando Andrade Filho   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detection and identification of Leishmania species within naturally infected sand flies in the Andean areas of Ecuador by a polymerase chain reaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The surveillance of prevalent Leishmania and sand fly species in endemic areas is important for prediction of the risk and expansion of leishmaniasis. In this study, we developed a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method for detection of Leishmania ...
Barroso, Paola Andrea   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Increasing the digital repository of DNA barcoding sequences of sand flies (Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Sand f ly identification is complex because it depends on the expertise of the taxonomist. The females show subtle morphological differences and the occurrence of the species complexes are usual in this taxon.
Almiron, Walter Ricardo   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The study of cells using scanning force microscopy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In nature the prevalence of Leishmania infection in whole sand fly populations can be very low (
Eley, AR   +5 more
core   +9 more sources

Comparación cariotípica de cinco especies de Lutzomyia (diptera: psychodidae) de la serie townsendi grupo verrucarum en Colombia.

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2002
Con el propósito de establecer algunas características citogenéticas de cinco especies nativas de Lutzomyia, correspondientes a la serie townsendi del grupo verrucarum: Lutzomyia longiflocosa, Lutzomyia quasitownsendi, Lutzomyia spinicrassa, Lutzomyia ...
Jesús Escovar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immunomodulating effects of Phlebotomine saliva in Leishmania infection: Review

open access: yesEntomoBrasilis, 2018
. The recognized action of some proteins present in the saliva of the phlebotomine dipteran vectors of Leishmaniasis, as modulators of the hemostatic, inflammatory and immune responses during the colonization of the protozoan in the host organism ...
Ivan Brito Feitosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The epidemiology of canine leishmaniasis: transmission rates estimated from a cohort study in Amazonian Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
We estimate the incidence rate, serological conversion rate and basic case reproduction number (R0) of Leishmania infantum from a cohort study of 126 domestic dogs exposed to natural infection rates over 2 years on Marajó Island, Pará State, Brazil.
Courtenay, O.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Phlebotominae Sand Flies in Paraguay. Abundance Distribution in the Southeastern Region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
From September 1993 to August 2001, 7,190 phlebotomine were collected with CDC light trap in an endemic area for human leishmaniasis, in the departments of Misiones and Itapúa, Paraguay.
Cousiño, Blanca   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Demographics and travel history of imported and autochthonous cases of leishmaniosis in dogs in the United States and Canada, 2006 to 2019

open access: yesJournal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2021
Background Leishmania infantum infections are reported in foxhounds throughout the United States (US) and Canada, but only rarely in other dog breeds. A seroprevalence report from 2006 documented leishmaniosis in foxhounds (8.9%) tested in the US between
Taylor Estes Gin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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