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The performance of serological tests for Leishmania infantum infection screenin...
Mendonca, Ivete Lopes de; Batista, Joilson Ferreira; Schallig, Henk; Pires e Cruz, Maria do Socorro; Alonso, Diego Peres [UNESP]Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T17:34:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-01-01. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2019-10-09T18:26:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 S0036-46652017005000221.pdf: 695746 bytes, checksum: 174214c15f01ea10a7c9efcf117fd31d (MD5); Dogs are considered the main reservoir of Leishmania infantum. This protozoan causes visceral leishmaniasis (VL), an uncontrolled urban zoonosi...
Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii and Leishmania spp. in domestic cats from Luand...
Lopes, Ana Patrícia; Oliveira, Ana Cristina; Granada, Sara; Rodrigues, Filipa T.; Papadopoulos, Elias; Schallig, Henk; Dubey, Jitender P.Toxoplasma gondii and Leishmania spp. are zoonotic protozoa of importance to animal and public health. The present study aimed to assess for the first time the seroprevalence of these zoonotic parasites in a domestic feline population living in Luanda, Angola. One hundred and two cats were sampled at a veterinary medical centre, from May 2014 to February 2016. The age of the cats ranged from 2.5 to 143 months (...
The performance of serological tests for Leishmania infantum infection screenin...
Mendonça, Ivete Lopes de; Batista, Joilson Ferreira; Schallig, Henk; Cruz, Maria do Socorro Pires e; Alonso, Diego Peres; Ribolla, Paulo Eduardo MartinsDogs are considered the main reservoir of Leishmania infantum. This protozoan causes visceral leishmaniasis (VL), an uncontrolled urban zoonosis in Brazil. Serological tests and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on peripheral blood were performed to identify infected dogs in scenarios of higher and lower prevalence of the disease (Teresina and Vitória). One-hundred infected and 57 non-infected animals from Teresi...