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Congenital Chagas disease: alert of research negligence
Dias, Nayra; Carvalho, Bruna Caroline Véras de; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Hagström, Luciana; Vital, Tamires Emanuele; Hecht, Mariana MachadoINTRODUCTION: Chagas disease (CD), a neglected endemic disease in Latin America, has acquired new epidemiological characteristics with an increase in the importance of alternative transmission routes such as congenital transmission. We evaluated the scientific research on this subject. METHODS: We searched the Scielo, BVS, and PubMed databases from 2006 to 2017. RESULTS: We identified a small number of publishe...
The role of gallery forests in maintaining Phlebotominae populations: potential...
Machado, Tâmara Dias Oliveira; Souza, Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi; Ferreira, Tauana de Sousa; Freire, Luciana Pereira; Timbó, Renata VelôzoBackground: knowledge on synanthropic phlebotomines and their natural infection by Leishmania is necessary for the identification of potential areas for leishmaniasis occurrence. Objective: to analyse the occurrence of Phlebotominae in gallery forests and household units (HUs) in the city of Palmas and to determine the rate of natural infection by trypanosomatids. Methods: gallery forests and adjacent household...
Successful isolation of Leishmania infantum from Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu...
Silva, Viviane Medeiros; Gonçalves, Rodrigo Gurgel; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Morales, Lucia Emilia D’ Anduraim; Cruz, Laurício MonteiroBackground: The main transmission route of Leishmania infantum is through the bites of sand flies. However, alternative mechanisms are being investigated, such as through the bites of ticks, which could have epidemiological relevance. The objective of this work was to verify the presence of Leishmania spp. In Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato collected from naturally infected dogs in the Federal District of B...
Expanding the knowledge about Leishmania species in wild mammals and dogs in th...
Cardoso, Rebecca Martins; Araújo, Nadjar Nitz Silva Lociks de; Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra; Souza, Thaís Tâmara Castro Minuzzi; Dietrich, Ana GabrielaBackground: Wild, synanthropic and domestic mammals act as hosts and/or reservoirs of several Leishmania spp. Studies on possible reservoirs of Leishmania in different areas are fundamental to understand host-parasite interactions and develop strategies for the surveillance and control of leishmaniasis. In the present study, we evaluated the Leishmania spp. occurrence in mammals in two conservation units and th...