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Sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis in a cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in central Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1996
Lutzomyia longipalpis, 15 other species of the genus Lutzomyia, and one species of Brumptomyia were collected in an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in a river canyon 450 m above sea-level, in Rio Claro, Antioquia, Colombia.
Yolanda López, Lisardo Osorio, Gilberto Alvarez, Jaime Rojas, Fernando Jiménez, Carmen Gómez, Cristina Ferro   +6 more
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Colonisation resistance in the sand fly gut:Leishmania protects Lutzomyia longipalpis from bacterial infection [PDF]

, 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.
Aguiar-Martins, Kelsilândia, Al Salem, Waleed S., Bates, Paul A., Cavalcante, Reginaldo R., Diaz-Albiter, Hector, Dillon, Rod J., Dillon, Viv M., Genta, Fernando A., Sant'Anna, Mauricio R. V.   +8 more
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Expression, purification, crystallization and crystallographic study ofLutzomyia longipalpisLJL143 [PDF]

Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications, 2015
Leishmaniasis is a neglected vector-borne disease with a global prevalence of over 12 million cases and 59 000 annual deaths. Transmission of the parasite requires salivary proteins, including LJL143 from the New World sandflyLutzomyia longipalpis. LJL143 is a known marker of sandfly exposure in zoonotic hosts.
Kelleher, Alan, Liu, Zhuyun, Seid, Christopher A., Zhan, Bin, Asojo, Oluwatoyin A.   +4 more
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Prostaglandin E2/Leukotriene B4 balance induced by Lutzomyia longipalpis saliva favors Leishmania infantum infection

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Eicosanoids and sand fly saliva have a critical role in the Leishmania infection. Here, we evaluated the effect of Lutzomyia longipalpis salivary gland sonicate (SGS) on neutrophil and monocyte recruitment and activation of eicosanoid ...
Théo Araújo-Santos, Deboraci Brito Prates, Jaqueline França-Costa, Nívea F Luz, Bruno B Andrade, José Carlos Miranda, Claudia I Brodskyn, Aldina Barral, Patrícia T Bozza, Valéria Matos Borges   +9 more
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Estudo epidemiológico das leishmanioses em área de turismo ambiental e ecoturismo, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, 2006-2007 [PDF]

, 2009
The aims of this study were to carry out a serological survey of canine leishmaniasis and identify the phlebotomine fauna in the urban area of Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul.
ANDRADE, Ana Rachel Oliveira de, AQUINO, Ricardo Braga, ARRUDA, Carla Cardozo Pinto de, GALATI, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi, NUNES, Vânia Lúcia Brandão, ROCCA, Maria Elizabeth Gizi, SANTOS, Mirella Ferreira da Cunha   +6 more
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Studies on Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Campus FIOCRUZ Mata Atlântica, Jacarepaguá, in the City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2015
INTRODUCTION: The presence of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the communities of the Campus FIOCRUZ Mata Atlântica (CFMA) in the City of Rio de Janeiro initiated the investigation of the Phlebotominae fauna in the Atlantic Forest to determine ...
Nataly Araujo de Souza, Juliana Bastos da Silva, Rodrigo Espíndola Godoy, Filipe Jonas Mattos de Souza, Cláudia Alves de Andrade-Coelho, Vanderlei Campos da Silva, Alfredo Carlos Rodrigues de Azevedo, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel   +7 more
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Experimental infection of Lutzomyia longipalpis fed on a patient with cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania mexicana amazonensis

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1986
The authors were able to infect phlebotomine sandflies on a human case of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by feeding females of Lutzomyia longipalpis on a patient with a lesion due to Leishmania mexicana amazonensis.Os autores lograram infectar ...
Leonidas M. Deane, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel, Manoel Paes-Oliveira, Gabriel Grimaldi Junior, Hooman Momen, Nataly de Souza, Eduardo D. Wermelinger, André F. Barbosa   +7 more
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Phlebotominae Sand Flies in Paraguay. Abundance Distribution in the Southeastern Region [PDF]

, 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, López de Puerto, Delfin G., Ortiz, Arnaldo J., Rojas de Arias, Antonieta, Rossi, Gustavo Carlos, Salomón, Oscar Daniel, Spinelli, Gustavo Ricardo   +6 more
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The first record of Lutzomyia longipalpis in the Argentine northwest [PDF]

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
In 2004, the urban presence of Lutzomyia longipalpis was recorded for the first time in Formosa province. In 2006, the first autochthonous case of human urban visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was recorded in Misiones in the presence of the vector, along with some canine VL cases.
Bravo, Andrea Gomez, Quintana, Maria Gabriela, Abril, Marcelo, Salomon, Oscar Daniel   +3 more
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Phlebotomine fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) of an American cutaneous leishmaniasis endemic area in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil [PDF]

, 2009
The occurrence of an outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis associated with Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis in the municipality of Bela Vista, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and the absence of information on its vectors in this area led the ...
ALVES, Murilo Andrade, ALVES, Tulia Peixoto, BRAZIL, Reginaldo Peçanha, CRISTALDO, Geucira, CUNHA, Rivaldo Venâncio da, DORVAL, Maria Elizabeth C, GALATI, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi, OLIVEIRA, Alessandra Gutierrez de, OSHIRO, Elisa Teruya, ROCHA, Hilda Carlos da   +9 more
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