The first record of American visceral leishmaniasis in domestic cats from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Acta Tropica

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-94

  da Silva, Alba Valéria Machado ^a   de Souza Cândido, Claudia Dias ^a   de Pita Pereira, Daniela ^b   Brazil, Reginaldo Peçanha ^b   Carreira, João Carlos Araujo ^a  

^a FIOCRUZ ^*  (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

American visceral leishmaniasis; Cats; Indirect fluorescence assay; PCR; Rio de Janeiro

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; ENDEMISM; FELID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; INTERMEDIATE HOST; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; SEROPREVALENCE; SYMPTOM; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

FELIS CATUS;

EID: 37249089879     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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