8 documents found, page 1 of 1

Notes on the sand fly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a region of Brazil

The family Psychodidae has a cosmopolitan distribution with members that occur in many habitats, mainly in humid environments, and is most diverse in the tropics. Subfamilies Sycoracinae and Phlebotominae have females with hematophagous habits and the latter studied more due to medical and veterinary interest, since it includes species that can transmit diseases to animals and humans. The knowledge about the sa...

Ecological aspects of the Phlebotominae fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Xak...

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Grupo de Estudos em Leishmanioses. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Instituto de Ciênci...

Citometria de fluxo no diagnóstico da leishmaniose visceral canina.

Descreve-se a padronização de nova metodologia para detecção de anticorpos antiformas promastigotas fixadas de L. (L.) chagasi, por citometria de fluxo (AAPF-IgG), sua aplicabilidade e desempenho na identificação de casos de leishmaniose visceral canina (LVC). Foram avaliados dois grupos de cães classificados pela reação de imunofluorescência indireta (RIFI), como: não reatores (NR, n=10) e reatores (R, n=50) d...

Canine visceral leishmaniasis in the Krenak indigenous community, Resplendor, M...

Leishmaniose tegumentar americana entre os indígenas Xakriabá: imagens, ideias,...

A leishmaniose tegumentar americana (LTA) é uma doença infecciosa em expansão na comunidade indígena Xakriabá, localizada no Norte de Minas Gerais, devido às suas características ambientais e condições precárias. Sua importância como problema de saúde pública entre esses indígenas reside não apenas na elevada incidência, como também nos transtornos que ocasiona à vida dos indivíduos afetados. O presente estudo ...

Relationship of Leishmania-specific IgG levels and IgG avidity with parasite de...

The clinical status and tissue parasite burden of the skin and spleen of 40 dogs naturally infected with Leishmania chagasi (syn. Leishmania infantum), together with 5 uninfected control dogs, were assessed. On the basis of the clinical evaluation, infected dogs were classified as asymptomatic (AD) or symptomatic (SD). Infected animals were also grouped according to their parasite load as exhibiting low (LP), m...

Comparison of serological assays for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmani...

Three serological methods, indirect fluorescent immunoassay (IFI), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and direct agglutination test (DAT) that are commonly employed in the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL), have been assessed. A total of 234 domestic dogs, drawn from an area in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, endemic for visceral leishmaniasis, were submitted to c...

Clinical value of anti-Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi IgG titers detected by f...

Leishmune® vaccination covers a broader number of endemic areas of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) and therefore the development of new serological devices able to discriminate CVL from Leishmune® vaccinees becomes an urgent need considering the post-vaccine seroconversion detected throughout conventional methodologies. Herein, we have described the establishment of a flow cytometry based methodology to det...