2011
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762011000200015
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Abstract: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is considered an important neglected disease that affects many countries of the world (Desjeux 2004). On the American continent, VL is caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania chagasi, which is transmitted to humans and other vertebrate hosts (e.g., dogs) through the bite of a female sandfly. Lutzomyia longipalpis is considered to be the main vector for VL in Brazil (Lainson & Rangel 2005).A high proportion of L. chagasi infected persons do not present any clinical symptoms of di… Show more

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“…In an endemic area of San Luis, state of Maranhão, Barbosa et al (2010) observed a high frequency of positive dogs (67%), and in the same state, Felipe et al (2011) found a canine infection rate of 47.8% in the municipality of Raposa. The latter was, almost twice as high as the rate found by Guimarães et al (2005) in another endemic area.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…In an endemic area of San Luis, state of Maranhão, Barbosa et al (2010) observed a high frequency of positive dogs (67%), and in the same state, Felipe et al (2011) found a canine infection rate of 47.8% in the municipality of Raposa. The latter was, almost twice as high as the rate found by Guimarães et al (2005) in another endemic area.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…A wide range of microbial phylotypes have been found associated with adult phlebotomine sand flies collected in the field [47, 32] and the percentage of field caught females found to contain a Leishmania population in their gut were usually below 1% [3335]. Thus Leishmania is only one of many microorganisms vying to occupy the sand fly gut.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Various studies in the last decade have aimed to elucidate the epidemiology of asymptomatic L. chagasi infection in the counties forming São Luís Island 6,7,8,17 .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%