Leishmania (viannia) braziliensis: Biological behavior in golden hamsters of isolates from Argentine patients

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 115-118

  Sinagra, Angel ^a   Riarte, Adelina ^a   Luna, Concepcion ^a   Campanini, Ada ^a   Segura, Elsa Leonor ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Parasitologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INFECTION RISK; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIASIS; METASTASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; ARGENTINA (FISH); CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA GUYANENSIS; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 0030785850     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1997.57.115     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. WHO, 1990. Control of the Leishmaniasis. World Health Organ Tech Rep Series: 793.
2. Lopez M, Inga R, Cangalaya M, Echevarria J, Llanos-Cuentas A, Orrego C, Arevalo J, 1993. Diagnosis of Leishmania using the polymerase chain reaction: a simplified procedure for field work. Am J Trop Med Hyg 49: 348-356.
3. Saravia NG, Holguin AF, McMahon Pratt D, D'Alessandro A, 1985. Mucocutanecus leishmaniasis in Colombia: Leishmania braziliensis subspecies diversity. Am J Trop Med Hyg 34: 714-720.
4. McMahon Pratt D, David IR, 1981. Monoclonal antibodies that distinguish between New World species of Leishmania. Nature 291: 581-582.
5. Senekjie HA, 1939. Studies on the culture of Leishmania tropica. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 33: 267-269.
6. Wilson HR, Dieckmann BS, Childs GE, 1979. Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania mexicana: experimental cutaneous infections in golden hamsters. Exp Parasitol 47: 270-283.
7. Laison R, Shaw JJ, 1972. Leishmaniasis of the New World: taxonomic problems. Br Med Bull 28: 44-48.
8. Kahl LP, Byran JE, David JR, 1990. Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis isolated from cutaneous and mucosal lesions of patients residing in Tres Bracos, Bahia, Brazil differ in virulence for the golden hamster. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 84: 783-784.
9. Rey JA, Travi BL Valencia AZ, Saravia NG, 1990. Infectivity of the subspecies of the Leishmania braziliensis complex in vivo and in vitro. Am J Trop Med Hyg 43: 623-631.
10. Cuba-Cuba CA, Miles MA, Vexenat A, Barker DC, McMahon-Pratt D, Butcher J, Barreto AC, Marsden PD, 1985. A focus of mucocutaneous leishmaniasis in Tres Bracos, Bahia. Brazil: characterization and identification of Leishmania stocks isolated from man and dogs. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 79: 500-507.
11. Travi B, Rey J, Saravia N, 1988. Behavior of Leishmania braziliensis S.L. in golden hamsters: evolution of the infection under different experimental conditions. J Parasitol 74: 1059-1062.
12. Martinez JE, Travi B, Valencia AZ, Saravia NG, 1991. Metastatic capability of Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis and Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis in golden hamsters. J Parasitol 77: 762-768.
13. Brazil RP, 1976. Metastatic spread of Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis to the extremities of hamsters. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 70: 89.
14. Wilson HR, Lollini LO, 1980. Leishmania braziliensis braziliensis metastasic infection in golden hamsters. Tans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 74: 833.
15. Hill JO, 1988. Pathophysiology of experimental leishmaniasis: the role of parasite physiology in the development of metastatic disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg 39: 256-260.
16. Coutinho E, Coelho MV, 1972. Leishmaniose tegumentar experimental. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo 14: 12-29.
17. Kahl LP, Byran JE, David JR, Conerford SA Von Lichtenberg F, 1991. Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis. I. Comparative pathology of golden hamsters infected with isolates from cutaneous and mucosal lesions of patients residing in Tres Bracos, Bahia, Brazil. Am J Trop Med Hyg 44: 218-232.
18. Azar HA, Lunardelli C, 1969. Collagen nature of asteroid bodies of giant cells in sarcoidosis. Am J Pathol 57: 81-85.