Can fleas from dogs infected with canine visceral leishmaniasis transfer the infection to other mammals?

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 147, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 320-325

  Coutinho, Maria Teresa Zanatta ^a   Linardi, Pedro Marcos ^b  

^a Centro de Controle de Zoonoses   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Canine visceral leishmaniasis; Ctenocephalides felis felis; Fleas; Leishmania chagasi; Leptomonas; Monoxenous trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOG DISEASE; FLEA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HAMSTER; LEISHMANIA; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FLEAS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CRICETINAE; CTENOCEPHALIDES CANIS; CTENOCEPHALIDES FELIS FELIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEPTOMONAS; MAMMALIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 34250638292     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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