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Effectiveness of the Brazilian Visceral Leishmaniasis Surveillance and Control ...
Rocha, Iara Caixeta Marques da; Santos, Letícia Helena Marques dos; Vital, Wendel Coura; Cunha, Gisele Macedo Rodrigues da; Magalhães, Fernanda do CarmoBackground Control strategies adopted by the Brazilian Visceral Leishmaniasis Surveillance and Control Programme (VLSCP) include identifying and culling seropositive infected dogs, early diagnosis and treatment of human cases, chemical control of the vector and population awareness. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the VLSCP on the prevalence and incidence rates of Leishmania infantum in children resid...
Spatial and temporal trends of visceral leishmaniasis by mesoregion in a southe...
Silva, Thais Almeida Marques da; Vital, Wendel Coura; Barbosa, David Soeiro; Oiko, Carla Sayuri Fogaça; Morais, Maria Helena FrancoThis article presents the spatial and temporal distribution of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Minas Gerais State and identifies the greater risk areas of transmission. This study is both timely and substantive because Minas Gerais is an important Brazilian state in the number of cases of visceral leishmaniasis. The results showed that during the 12-year time series the VL had a heterogeneous spatial and tempora...
Genetic homogeneity among Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum isolates from dog an...
Silva, Thais Almeida Marques da; Gomes, Luciana Inácia; Oliveira, Edward; Vital, Wendel Coura; Silva, Letícia de AzevedoBackground: Certain municipalities in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area (BHMA), Minas Gerais, Brazil, have the highest human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) mortality rates in the country and also demonstrate high canine seropositivity. In Brazil, the etiologic agent of VL is Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intraspecific genetic variability of parasites from humans and...