Canine visceral leishmaniasis in Teresina, Brazil: Relationship between clinical features and infectivity for sand flies

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-9

  Soares, Maria Regiane Araújo ^a   Mendonça, Ivete Lopes de ^a   Bonfim, Jailon Moreira do ^a   Rodrigues, José Alves ^a   Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro ^b   Costa, Carlos Henrique Nery ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania sp.; Lutzomyia longipalpis; Polymerase chain reaction; Xenodiagnosis

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMISM; HEALTH MONITORING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DOG; EYE DISCHARGE; FEMALE; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LYMPHADENOPATHY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE; SKIN ULCER; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; XENODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSYCHODIDAE;

BRAZIL; PIAUI; TERESINA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA SP.; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; PHLEBOTOMINAE;

EID: 78049462466     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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