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Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in the State of Pernambuco Flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) no Estado de Pernambuco

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2010
INTRODUCTION: Phlebotomine sand flies are small insects of great medical relevance. This article presents an updated list of the phlebotomine sand flies occurring in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Andrey José de Andrade, Klaudia Emanuela Ramos Tenório, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Valdir de Queiroz Balbino, Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho   +5 more
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Leishmaniasis and phlebotomine sand flies in Oman Sultanate [PDF]

Parasite, 2020
There are few data on leishmaniases and sandflies in Oman Sultanate. We carried out an eco-epidemiological study in 1998 in the two main mountains of the country, the Sharqiyah and the Dhofar. This study allowed us to isolate and identify threeLeishmaniastrains from patients exhibiting cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Jean-Antoine Rioux, Marina Gramiccia, Nicole Léger, Philippe Desjeux, Jérôme Depaquit   +4 more
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Agrarian counterpoint

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
wiley   +1 more source

Antibody response to Phlebotomus perniciosus saliva in cats naturally exposed to phlebotomine sand flies is positively associated with Leishmania infection

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Zoonotic leishmaniosis, caused by the protozoan Leishmania infantum, is a public and animal health problem in Asia, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin. Several phlebotomine sand fly species from the subgenus
André Pereira, José Manuel Cristóvão, Hugo Vilhena, Ângela Martins, Patrícia Cachola, Joaquim Henriques, Mónica Coimbra, Ana Catarino, Tereza Lestinova, Tatiana Spitzova, Petr Volf, Lenea Campino, Carla Maia   +12 more
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Risk factors of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa: a case-control study in Pokot territory of Kenya and Uganda [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: In East Africa, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is endemic in parts of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. It is caused by Leishmania donovani and transmitted by the sandfly vector Phlebotomus martini.
A. Ocheng, AHLUWALIA, Alvar, Anoopa Sharma, BARNETT, Basimike, Bern, Bern, Boussery, Bucheton, Chappuis, Chappuis, D. T Worku, Elnaiem, Filmer, Gebre-Michael, Hamilton, Heisch, Iversen, J. H Kolaczinski, J. Kasimiro, Jahn, Mohamed, N. Kabatereine, Ngumbi, Perkins, R. Reithinger, RANJAN, Robert, RYAN, S. Brooker, Schaefer, Schenkel, Takken   +33 more
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Potential vectors of Leishmaniases in the Environmental Protection Area and Tinguá Federal Biological Reserve, Municipality of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
This study was to describe the composition of sand fly fauna, detect potential vectors of Leishmania spp. in the Tinguá district, an ATL endemic, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Seven species of vectorial importance in the epidemiological cycle of leishmaniasis was observed: Nyssomyia intermedia, Migonemyia migonei, Pintomyia fischeri, Psychodopygus hirsutus ...
Antônio L. F. Santana, Alfredo C. R. Azevedo, Margarete M. S. Afonso, Bruno M. Carvalho, Vanessa R. Vieira, Simone M. Costa, Júlia S. Silva, Thais A. Pereira, Daniela P. Pereira, Maurício L. Vilela   +9 more
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Canine Leishmaniasis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000–2015): Taxonomic Characterisation of Etiological Agents and Geospatial Case Analysis

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Canine Leishmaniasis is a vector‐borne zoonotic disease caused by several species of protozoa of the genus Leishmania. In the state of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Leishmania braziliensis is the most prevalent species causing tegumentary leishmaniasis (TL) and Leishmania infantum is the main causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda, Laryssa Fabiano do Rosário Coelho, Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier, Artur Augusto Velho Mendes Junior, Renan Nunes Albuquerque, Aline Fagundes da Silva, Andreza Pain Marcelino, Fernanda Nunes Santos, Sandro Antonio Pereira, Rodrigo Caldas Menezes, Armando de Oliveira Schubach   +10 more
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Molecular variation in Leishmania parasites from sandflies species of a zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in northeast of Iran [PDF]

, 2014
Background & objectives: In the well-known zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) focus in Turkmen Sahara, border of Iran and Turkmenistan, ZCL has increased among humans in the past five years.
Parvizi, P., Roshanghalb, M., Sharbatkhori, M., Spotin, A., Taherkhani, H.   +4 more
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The epidemiology of canine leishmaniasis: transmission rates estimated from a cohort study in Amazonian Brazil [PDF]

, 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., Dye, C., Garcez, L.M., Quinnell, R.J.   +3 more
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Factors Associated With the Emergence and Spread of Visceral Leishmaniasis in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), once considered a rural disease in Brazil, has progressively urbanised, particularly in the state of São Paulo (SSP), where the first urban cases emerged after the detection of the vector Lutzomyia longipalpis in 1997.
Vera Lucia Fonseca de Camargo‐Neves, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck   +1 more
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