IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ, MISIONES, ARGENTINA
The emergence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) in Latin America is a growing public health problem. The urbanization of ZVL has been observed in different countries around the world, and there are a growing number of reports drawing attention to the emergence of this infection in new locati...
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pubmed-44350182015-05-18 IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ, MISIONES, ARGENTINA ACOSTA, Lucrecia DÍAZ, Ricardo TORRES, Pedro SILVA, Gustavo RAMOS, Marina FATTORE, Gladys DESCHUTTER, Enrique J. BORNAY-LLINARES, Fernando J. Brief Communications The emergence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) in Latin America is a growing public health problem. The urbanization of ZVL has been observed in different countries around the world, and there are a growing number of reports drawing attention to the emergence of this infection in new locations, as well as its increase in previously established areas of endemicity. In the city of Posadas, Misiones province, Northeastern Argentina, the transmission of ZVL associated with canines and Lutzomyia longipalpis was first reported in 2006. In the city of Puerto Iguazú, also in Misiones province, the first human case of ZVL was reported in February 2014. From 209 surveyed dogs, 15 (7.17%) were identified as positive by serological and/or parasitological methods. Amplification was observed in 14 samples and in all cases the species implicated was Leishmania infantum. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first molecular characterization of L. infantum from dogs in this area. Instituto de Medicina Tropical 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4435018/ /pubmed/25923899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652015000200013 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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ACOSTA, Lucrecia DÍAZ, Ricardo TORRES, Pedro SILVA, Gustavo RAMOS, Marina FATTORE, Gladys DESCHUTTER, Enrique J. BORNAY-LLINARES, Fernando J. IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ, MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ,
MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ,
MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ,
MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ,
MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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IDENTIFICATION OF Leishmania infantum IN PUERTO IGUAZÚ,
MISIONES, ARGENTINA |
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identification of leishmania infantum in puerto iguazú,
misiones, argentina |
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The emergence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis (ZVL) in Latin America is a growing
public health problem. The urbanization of ZVL has been observed in different
countries around the world, and there are a growing number of reports drawing
attention to the emergence of this infection in new locations, as well as its
increase in previously established areas of endemicity. In the city of Posadas,
Misiones province, Northeastern Argentina, the transmission of ZVL associated with
canines and Lutzomyia longipalpis was first reported in 2006. In the
city of Puerto Iguazú, also in Misiones province, the first human case of ZVL was
reported in February 2014. From 209 surveyed dogs, 15 (7.17%) were identified as
positive by serological and/or parasitological methods. Amplification was observed in
14 samples and in all cases the species implicated was Leishmania
infantum. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first molecular
characterization of L. infantum from dogs in this area. |
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2015 |
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435018/ |
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